Maya Deren

29th April, 1917 (Kiev, Ukraine) – 13th October, 1961 (New York, USA)

In our Torel Avantgarde, Maya Deren was represented as a creative artist, in an Executive room, with balcony and city view.

The fabric used for the headboard of the double bed is in the same pattern as the Executive Royal Charlie Chaplin Room.

The shape of a film camera is represented in the circles of lamps, in the form of projectors, an allusion to cinema.

Maya Deren - Torel Avantgarde
Maya Deren - Torel Avantgarde
Maya Deren - Torel Avantgarde
Maya Deren - Torel Avantgarde

About The Artist...

Eleanora Derenkowskaia Was One Of The Most Important Experimental Filmmakers And Avant-Garde Business Promoters In The 1940s And 1950s.

Maya Deren - Torel Avantgarde

Maya Deren, as she was known, was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, speaker, writer, and photographer.

She combined her interests in dance, Haitian Vodou, and subjective psychology in a series of surreal short black-and-white films.

Deren creates continuous movement through discontinuous space while abandoning established notions of physical space and time, with the ability to transform his vision into a stream of consciousness.

Some of his Main Works:

A Study in Choreography for Camera
Meshes of the Afternoon
Ritual in Transfigured Time
Meditation on Violence

Artistic Movements: Video-dance and Experimental Cinema.

“The way back is always shorter.” – Maya Deren