Marianne / Maya Deren [after Alexander Hammid]
2010
print & cutting on prepared paper
34 x 34 cm [unframed]
50 x 50 cm [framed]
edition of 5
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5/5 Collection: Irina Ivanova, Kiev, Ukraine
Original photo by Alexander Hammid, 1945
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), 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 theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.
Deren was a key figure in the creation of a New American Cinema, highlighting personal, experimental, underground film. In 1986, the American Film Institute created the Maya Deren Award to honor independent filmmakers.
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