Maya Deren • United States • 1949 • A dazzling vision of dance
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time, as well as a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. In the 1940s dance film Meditation on Violence, Deren blurs boundaries between violence and beauty.
Maya Deren • United States • 1958 • A dazzling vision of dance
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time, as well as a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and...
Maya Deren • United States • 1985 • A remarkable hour-long montage of Haitian Voodoo ceremonies
Considered the mother of avant-garde filmmaking, Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen is a remarkable hour-long montage of Haitian Voodoo ceremonies.
Martina Kudlácek • Austria, Switzerland, Germany • 2002 • A portrait of a groundbreaking artist.
Maya Deren is considered by many to be the most innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of America...
