Choreographer, dancer, theorist, poet, lecturer, author and photographer

She became involved in modern dance, and while working as publicity assistant and secretary to the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe on tour, met the Czech emigre film-maker Alexander Hammid, whom she subsequently married. Hammid collaborated with Deren on her first film, Meshes of the Afternoon which was shot using a 16mm Bolex in two weeks in 1943. At Land followed in 1944, A Study In Choreography For The Camera in 1945 and Ritual In Transfigured Time in 1946. During this time Deren also worked on the uncompleted film Witches Cradle.

Deren completed two more films: Meditation On Violence (1948) and The Very Eye Of Night. Maya Deren worked ceaselessly to establish facilities and funding for the independent film movement which subsequently grew up in America. She founded the Creative Film Foundation and her work led ultimately to the establishment of the first Film-Makers Co-op in New York. She wrote numerous theoretical and technical articles for film magazines, but also wrote articles on film-making for mainstream women's magazines and in 1946 published a pamphlet: 'Anagram Of Ideas On Art, Form and Film'**. She died following a brain haemorrhage in 1961.

After research on Maya Deren, i thought of some interesting idea for my champaign, when using maya deren experimental videography its brings your back to the past and has that old film feel, which make it more nostalgic. she using black and white for the film as it tell a story in different form of way. i could use this videography example as a film for noise, to portray a senses of awareness to the sociality.