Maya Deren

(1917–1961) Film Director Russian Empire

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Maya Deren was a film director from the Russian Empire, best known for Divine horsemen.

Quick Facts About Maya Deren

Born: May 12, 1917
Died: October 13, 1961
Nationality: Russian Empire
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Divine horsemen
Known for: Meshes of the Afternoon
Spouse: Alexandr Hackenschmied

About Maya Deren

Maya Deren was a Russian-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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship

Quotes by Maya Deren

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but…

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Art

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I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those…

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Auras

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It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a…

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Break

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And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms…

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Art

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Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you…

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Art

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Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

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Facts

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The way back is always shorter.

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Home

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I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick,

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Hollywood

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“The universe was once conceived as the passive stage upon which the dramatic conflict of human wills was enacted and resolved. Today…

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Identity

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Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

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Experiments

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