That’s the story told in “Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera ... (Soon after he and Deren met, he changed his name to Alexander Hammid.) Living on the margins of Hollywood, they went ...

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961 ...

Alexander Hammid born Alexandr Hackenschmied ... He made Meshes of the Afternoon, with his wife Maya Deren—to whom he was married from 1942 to 1947. He won the 1965 Academy Award for ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Maya Deren is a postmortem biographer’s dream subject. Not only did the bohemian dancer, poet, photographer ...