Maya Deren, born Eleonora Solomonovna Derenkovskaya, was a Russian-born American experimental filmmaker and an important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s, who lived from 29 April 1917 to 13 October 1961. She was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer. She believed the function of film was to create an experience, and she combined her expertise in dance, ethnography and symbolist poetry in a series of perceptual black-and-white short films.
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Maya Deren (; born Eleonora Solomonovna Derenkovskaya; Russian: Элеонора Соломоновна Деренковская; May 12 [O.S. April 29], 1917, October 13, 1961) was a Russian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.
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May 12 [O.S. April 29], 1917, October 13, 1961
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