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Maya Deren is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Camera Operator, Editor and Art Direction American born on 29 april 1917 at Kiev (Ukraine)
Maya Deren est une réalisatrice américaine d'origine ukrainienne, née Eleanora Derenkovskaïa à Kiev le 29 avril 1917 et décédée à New York le 13 octobre 1961.
Personnalité majeure du cinéma expérimental américain des années 1940, Maya Deren réalise de nombreux courts métrages d'inspiration surréaliste et psychanalytique, inspirés par Jean Cocteau. Elle tente en vain de participer à la fédération de l'avant-garde américaine au début des années 50. C'est en son honneur qu'en 1962, un an après sa mort, Jonas Mekas réalise son rêve en fondant, avec d'autres cinéastes, The Film-Makers' Cooperative.
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Maya Deren
Nationality USA
Birth 29 april 1917 at Kiev (Ukraine)
Death 13 october 1961 (at 44 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship
Birth 29 april 1917 at Kiev (Ukraine)
Death 13 october 1961 (at 44 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship
Personnalité majeure du cinéma expérimental américain des années 1940, Maya Deren réalise de nombreux courts métrages d'inspiration surréaliste et psychanalytique, inspirés par Jean Cocteau. Elle tente en vain de participer à la fédération de l'avant-garde américaine au début des années 50. C'est en son honneur qu'en 1962, un an après sa mort, Jonas Mekas réalise son rêve en fondant, avec d'autres cinéastes, The Film-Makers' Cooperative.
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002)
, 1h43Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Jonas Mekas, Graeme Ferguson, Alexander Hammid, Judith Malina
Roles Herself
Rating72%
Ce documentaire retrace la biographie surprenante de l'artiste légendaire Maya Deren. Née à Kiev en 1917, elle devint un personnage central de l'avant-garde américaine après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Surtout connue pour son travail anticonformiste dans le film expérimental, elle était très active dans d'autres domaines politiques et culturels : elle fut poète, danseuse, et par-dessus tout une ethnographe renommée et une adepte des pratiques vaudou.
At Land (1944)
, 15minutesDirected by Maya Deren
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy
Actors Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren, John Cage
Rating74%
At the beginning of the film, a woman is lying on a beach as if she has been washed up by the ocean. She climbs a tree with some difficulty, but when she finally reaches the top, she finds herself at the end of a long dining room table during a bourgeois dinner party. All the guests ignore her as she drags herself on top of the table and pulls herself across it, trying to reach a man (played by graphic designer Alvin Lustig) at the opposite end who looks deeply concentrated on a chess game. When she finally gets to the man, he stands up and leaves the table; she looks disappointed and hopeless.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
, 14minutesDirected by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Actors Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Roles The Woman
Rating77%
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. The woman follows the hooded figure to her bedroom where she sees the figure hide the knife under a pillow. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. The man leads her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices that the man's posture is similar to that of the hooded figure when it hid the knife under the pillow. She attempts to injure him and fails. Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground. He then sees the woman in the chair, who was previously sleeping, but is now dead.
Director
, 3h29Directed by Tim Burton, Alexander Payne, Todd Solondz, Gus Van Sant, George Lucas, Maya Deren, Adam Davidson, D. A. Pennebaker, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Peter Sollett, Andy Warhol, Mike Mills
Origin USA
, 52minutesDirected by Maya Deren
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Rating66%
At Land (1944)
, 15minutesDirected by Maya Deren
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy
Actors Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren, John Cage
Rating74%
At the beginning of the film, a woman is lying on a beach as if she has been washed up by the ocean. She climbs a tree with some difficulty, but when she finally reaches the top, she finds herself at the end of a long dining room table during a bourgeois dinner party. All the guests ignore her as she drags herself on top of the table and pulls herself across it, trying to reach a man (played by graphic designer Alvin Lustig) at the opposite end who looks deeply concentrated on a chess game. When she finally gets to the man, he stands up and leaves the table; she looks disappointed and hopeless.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
, 14minutesDirected by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Actors Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Rating77%
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. The woman follows the hooded figure to her bedroom where she sees the figure hide the knife under a pillow. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. The man leads her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices that the man's posture is similar to that of the hooded figure when it hid the knife under the pillow. She attempts to injure him and fails. Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground. He then sees the woman in the chair, who was previously sleeping, but is now dead.
Scriptwriter
, 52minutesDirected by Maya Deren
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Roles Book
Rating66%
At Land (1944)
, 15minutesDirected by Maya Deren
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy
Actors Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren, John Cage
Roles Writer
Rating74%
At the beginning of the film, a woman is lying on a beach as if she has been washed up by the ocean. She climbs a tree with some difficulty, but when she finally reaches the top, she finds herself at the end of a long dining room table during a bourgeois dinner party. All the guests ignore her as she drags herself on top of the table and pulls herself across it, trying to reach a man (played by graphic designer Alvin Lustig) at the opposite end who looks deeply concentrated on a chess game. When she finally gets to the man, he stands up and leaves the table; she looks disappointed and hopeless.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
, 14minutesDirected by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Actors Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Roles Writer
Rating77%
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. The woman follows the hooded figure to her bedroom where she sees the figure hide the knife under a pillow. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. The man leads her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices that the man's posture is similar to that of the hooded figure when it hid the knife under the pillow. She attempts to injure him and fails. Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground. He then sees the woman in the chair, who was previously sleeping, but is now dead.
Camera
, 52minutesDirected by Maya Deren
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
, 14minutesDirected by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Actors Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Roles Camera Operator
Rating77%
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. The woman follows the hooded figure to her bedroom where she sees the figure hide the knife under a pillow. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. The man leads her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices that the man's posture is similar to that of the hooded figure when it hid the knife under the pillow. She attempts to injure him and fails. Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground. He then sees the woman in the chair, who was previously sleeping, but is now dead.
Editor
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
, 14minutesDirected by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Actors Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Roles Editor
Rating77%
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. The woman follows the hooded figure to her bedroom where she sees the figure hide the knife under a pillow. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. The man leads her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices that the man's posture is similar to that of the hooded figure when it hid the knife under the pillow. She attempts to injure him and fails. Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground. He then sees the woman in the chair, who was previously sleeping, but is now dead.
Art
, 52minutesDirected by Maya Deren
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Roles Art Direction
Rating66%