Maya Deren (Actor)

Reviews of Maya Deren Movies

Looking for reviews of Maya Deren movies? Cinafilm has a total of 192 reviews across 5 movies.

Movies starring Maya Deren have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 74%.

Meshes of the Afternoon - released in 1943 - is Maya Deren's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 131 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Maya Deren is Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film - released in 2011 - with a score of 65% based on 6 reviews.

Actor Biography

Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеонора Деренковская), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.

Maya Deren has acted in films with Alexander Hammid, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage and Rita Christiani.

Maya Deren has worked with these film directors: Alexander Hammid, Pip Chodorov and Martina Kudlácek.