Director
Cinematographer
Choreographer
Dancer
Film theorist
Lecturer
Writer
Photographer
Music composer
April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961
The American Film
Institute (AFI) created the Maya Deren Award, in 1986, to recognize and honor
the work of independent video and film makers.
Written work:
An Anagram of Ideas on
Art, Form and Film (1946); Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti (1953) / aka The
Voodoo Gods by Paladin (1975 & 1998); Film in Medias Res (2005); Film
Poetics (2005); Film Production (2005).
Music albums:
Divine Horsemen: The
Voodoo Gods of Haiti (1980); Meringues and Folk Ballads of Haiti (1978); Voices
of Haiti (1953).
Movies, video and
television:
A
Study in Choreography for Camera (1945); At Land (1944); At Land / The Very Eye
of Night (1955); Black Lake (2020); Cinema16: American Short Films (2006); Dissent
(2011); Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993); Ensemble for
Somnambulists (1951); Eschew (2017); History's Mysteries (1999); Im Spiegel der
Maya Deren (2001); Invocation: Maya Deren (1987); Julie's Smile (2013); Maeva
(1961); Marianne (2005); Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2007); Maya Deren,
Take 0 (2012); Meditation on Violence (1949); Medusa (1949); Meshes of the
Afternoon (1943); Mother (2019); Probe and Night Beat (1957); Reminiscences of
Yearning (2011); Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Satan's
Playground (2006); Season of Strangers (1959); The Private Life of a Cat (1946);
The Very Eye of Night (1955); This Changes Everything (2018); Vever (2018); Vever
(for Barbara) (2019); Witch's Cradle (1944).