Maya Deren
April 29, 1917 · 109 years old
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська), 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 theo…
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Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 · 15m · Movie
An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · 52m · Movie
A documentary film about Haitian vodou.
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