Maya Deren Filmography

In the quiet stillness of an afternoon, a lone woman, weary and world-weary, traverses her...

Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape...

An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize...

A man dances in several locations, edited to have a fluent effect.

Two cats have a litter of 5 kittens and then nurse, teach and play with...

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux,...

A young Oriental man with a headscarf and bare torso shadowboxes indoors in front of...

Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren's avant-garde films of the 1940s, including the seminal _Meshes...

A documentary film about Haitian vodou.

Combining footage shot by the late Barbara Hammer in Guatemala in the mid-1970s, a personal...

An authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering...