Maya Deren
American filmmaker
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Maya Deren was a Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer.
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Born: April 29, 1917, Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: October 13, 1961 (age 44 years), Manhattan, New York, NY
Influenced by: Marcel Duchamp, Katherine Dunham, Joseph Campbell, and more
Spouse: Teiji Ito (m. 1960–1961), Alexandr Hackenschmied (m. 1942–1947), and Gregory Bardacke (m. 1935–1939)
Parents: Marie Fiedler and Solomon Derenkowsky
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