Maya Deren information

Maya Deren
Maya Deren
	Deren in the film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), her debut
Born	Eleonora Derenkovska; May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917; Kyiv, Russian Empire
Died	October 13, 1961 (aged 44); New York, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	New York University; New School of Social Research; Smith College;
Known for	Experimental film
Notable work	Films: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943); At Land (1944); A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945); Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946); Meditation on Violence (1947); The Very Eye of Night (1955); Books: An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946); Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1953);
Movement	Américain Avant-Garde
Spouses	; Gregory Bardacke (m. 1935; div. 1939) ; Alexandr Hackenschmied (m. 1942; div. 1947) ; Teiji Itō (m. 1960)
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship 1946; Grand Prix International for Avant-garde Film, Cannes Film Festival 1947;

Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkovskaya, Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917^[1]^[2] – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (then part of the Russian Empire, now independent Ukraine) American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer.

The function of film, Deren believed, was to create an experience.^[3] She combined her expertise in dance and choreography, ethnography, the African spirit religion of Haitian Vodou, symbolist poetry and gestalt psychology (as a student of Kurt Koffka) in a series of perceptual, black-and-white short films. Using editing, multiple exposures, jump-cutting, superimposition, slow-motion, and other camera techniques to her advantage, Deren abandoned established notions of physical space and time, innovating through carefully planned films with specific conceptual aims.^[4]^[5]

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), her collaboration with her husband at the time, Alexander Hammid, has been one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema history. Deren went on to make several more films, including but not limited to At Land (1944), A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945), and Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946), writing, producing, directing, editing, and photographing them with help from only one other person, Hella Heyman, her camerawoman.

^ Запись о рождении в метрической книге Киевского раввината за 1917 год // ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 161 (517 — по старой нумерации). Л. 73об–74. (russian)
^ A lot of sources give other dates of birth: April 29, 1917.
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^ Clark, VèVè; Hudson, Millicent; Neiman, Catrina (1985). Melton, Hollis (ed.). The Legend of Maya Deren: a documentary biography and collected works. Vol. 1, pt. 1, Signatures (1917-42). New York: Anthology Film Archives/Film Culture. ISBN 978-0-91168-914-3.
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[metrica-1] Запись о рождении в метрической книге Киевского раввината за 1917 год // ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 161 (517 — по старой нумерации). Л. 73об–74. (russian)

[2] A lot of sources give other dates of birth: April 29, 1917.

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[Legend-4] Clark, VèVè; Hudson, Millicent; Neiman, Catrina (1985). Melton, Hollis (ed.). The Legend of Maya Deren: a documentary biography and collected works. Vol. 1, pt. 1, Signatures (1917-42). New York: Anthology Film Archives/Film Culture. ISBN 978-0-91168-914-3.

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Maya Deren
Deren in the film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), her debut
Born	Eleonora Derenkovska May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917 Kyiv, Russian Empire
Died	October 13, 1961(1961-10-13) (aged 44) New York, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	New York University New School of Social Research Smith College
Known for	Experimental film
Notable work	Films: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) At Land (1944) A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) Meditation on Violence (1947) The Very Eye of Night (1955) Books: An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946) Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1953)
Movement	Américain Avant-Garde
Spouses	Gregory Bardacke (m. 1935; div. 1939) Alexandr Hackenschmied (m. 1942; div. 1947) Teiji Itō (m. 1960)
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship 1946 Grand Prix International for Avant-garde Film, Cannes Film Festival 1947