Experimental cinema owes a lot to Maya Deren, a revolutionary artist who injected a sense of surrealism and femininity into all of her work. Her short films are fluid, as though the images Deren wants ...

Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

Following over a year’s renovation, NW will unveil its new centre for contemporary art and film on the 22nd of March in Aalst, Belgium.