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Dancer, ethnographer, philosopher, and “visual poet” Maya Deren (1917–1961) gave birth to the American avant-garde film movement of the postwar era in America, and her work remains key to our understanding of the modern cinema.
Maya Deren, geboren als Eleanora Solomonovna Derenkovskaya (* 29. April 1917 in Kiew , Ukraine ; † 13. Oktober 1961 in New York City ), war eine US-amerikanische Avantgarde - Regisseurin , Tänzerin [1] und Filmtheoretikerin der 1940er und 1950er Jahre.
15. März 2002 · Im Spiegel der Maya Deren: Directed by Martina Kudlácek. With Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi, Rita Christiani. Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
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Having gone through Maya Deren's filmography, this documentary about her life and career gave me a deeper appreciation for her artistry and made me think of her films in a new perspective. She seemed like a very unique and passionate person, being ahead of her time in terms of fashion and filmmaking. Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas sharing their personal memories of her was also a pleasant surprise.
Maya Deren was already a respected writer and artist by the time she picked up a film camera and created the groundbreaking avant-garde film "Meshes of the Afternoon." A leading figure in the ...
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IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, her first international success, won the Vienna Film Prize 2001 at the Viennale in Austria and Dance Screen Award for Best Documentary 2002 in Monaco. She is currently working on a film about the American pioneer avant-garde filmmaker and Warhol superstar Marie Menken. Kudlácek also works as a researcher for Anthology Film Archives, assisting in preservation ...
The feature-length documentary In the Mirror of Maya Deren reconstructs the exciting biography of the legendary artist Maya Deren. Born in Kiev in 1917, she was to become a central figure of the American avantgarde after WW II. Best known for her ground-breaking work in experimental film, she was highly active in various other political and cultural fields - a poet, a dancer and, above all, a ...
