That’s the story told in “Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera ... New York, changing their last name to Deren. In 1930, Marie, who was unhappy in the provincial city, took her daughter ...

Maya Deren In March 2025, Arkadin is exploring Female Filmmakers on the Edge, and perhaps no filmmaker surveyed the boundaries of cinematic possibility more exquisitely than Maya Deren. Surrealistic, ...

wasn’t an actual dance performance but a panel discussion and film documenting Haitian voodoo dances from the middle of the last century. “The Haitian Footage: Maya Deren Unedited,” shown at ...

It’s nearly impossible to begin a discussion on experimental film without including Maya Deren, whose foremost 1943 film “Meshes of the Afternoon” has become one of the most influential and ...

Faculty member Amresh Sinha’s essay “From Photographic Servitude to Cinematic Emancipation: The Poetic Films of Maya Deren” has just been published in the second edition of the book Filmmakers on Film ...

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 ...

This seminal avant-garde short film, from 1943, directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, fulfills the spectral promise of the title: a woman, played by Deren, does more or less nothing one day ...