Maya Deren

Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer.

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On the Eve of the Future. Selected Writings on Film
The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the importance of the underappreciated medium of film. On the Eve of the Future collects more than thirty years’ worth of those essays, focusing on her most relevant engagements with avant-garde production in experimental cinema, particularly with
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Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-garde Filmmakers

Brakhage S. 1989. Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-garde Filmmakers. :183pp.
Le cinéma visionnaire: L'Avant-garde américaine (1943-2000)

Sitney P.A. 2002. Le cinéma visionnaire: L'Avant-garde américaine (1943-2000). :440pp.
Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde

Sitney P.A. 1974. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde. :479pp.
An Introduction to the American Underground Film
Renan S. 1967. An Introduction to the American Underground Film. :326pp.
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What is the underground film?

A history of the avant-garde/experimental/underground film in America

A gallery of film-makers

Stars of the underground films

The underground establishment

Expanded cinema.
Experiment in the Film

Brunius JB, Jacobs L, Roshal G, Karmen R, Iros E, Richter H, Anstey E, Maddison J. 1949. Experiment in the Film. :312pp.
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Écrits sur l'art et le cinéma

Deren M. 2004. Écrits sur l'art et le cinéma. :120pp.
An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film

Deren M. 1946. An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film. Outcast. 9:52pp.
Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader

Horak J-C, Mekas J, Rabinovitz L, Varda A, Suárez JAntonio, Ganguly S, Tartaglia J, Haug K, Wolf R, Chin D et al.. 2002. Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader. :356pp.
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Introduction: Toward a new history of the experimental cinema

Part one. Origins of the American avant-garde cinema, 1920-1959.
- The first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak
- Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas
- The woman filmmaker in the New York avant-garde / Lauren Rabinovitz
- Women in the avant-garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Trinh T. Minh-ha / Agnès Varda
The Avant-garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism

Sitney P.A, Eisenstein S, Richter H, Epstein J, Dulac G, Artaud A, Cornell J, Deren M, Peterson S, Broughton J et al.. 1978. The Avant-garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism. Anthology film archives. :295pp.
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Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-garde Filmmakers

Le cinéma visionnaire: L'Avant-garde américaine (1943-2000)

Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde

An Introduction to the American Underground Film

Experiment in the Film

Écrits sur l'art et le cinéma

An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film

Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader

The Avant-garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism

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