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.

• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

  
• Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2002)

  
• The Private Life of a Cat (1944)

  
• At Land (1944)

  
• Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)