Maya Deren
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Maya Deren
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First Name
Maya
Surname or Business Name
Deren
Years Affiliated
2017
Birth Date
1917
Birthplace
Ukraine
Death Date
1961
Occupation
Filmmaker
Biographical Text
Maya Deren (1917-61, Ukraine/United States) was one of the most important experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promotors of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer. Her influence, especially in independent film, has not only endured but also increased in the decades following her death. She combined her interests in dance, Haitian Vodou and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black-and-white short films. Using editing, multiple exposures, jump cutting, superimposition, slow-motion and other camera techniques to her fullest advantage, Deren created continued motion through discontinued space, with the ability to turn her vision into a stream of consciousness.
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Citation
“Maya Deren,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/4381.