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Filmmaker

Maya Deren, born on April 29, 1917 in Kyiv, Ukraine, and died on October 13, 1961 in New York, USA, was an outstanding filmmaker. Her works are known for their unique visual style and experimental nature, which have had a profound impact on the art of film.

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“The way back is always shorter.”

Author:Maya Deren

“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.”

Moments Might Joy Desire Levels Break Fire Higher Scene Draws Crowds Disaster Flames Intensity Unusual Break Through Higher Level Morbidity

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“Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.”

Inspirational Ideas Use Motivational Experiments Filmmaker Visuals Your Freedom

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

Mind Made Matter Facts Fiction Myth Manifest

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“I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.”

Hollywood Lipstick

Author:Maya Deren

“The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.”

Mind Art Soul Form Effects Messages Tasks Experiments Contemporary Cinema Unconscious Devices Nerves Translate Hidden Messages

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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 of my images.”

Art Sometimes Form Artist Asks Vision Assuming Filmmaker

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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 must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head”

Ifs Thinking Giving Firsts Art Ideas States Principles Plans Art Is Notion Planning Devotion Celebrate Filmmaker

Author:Maya Deren

“I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.”

Ifs Film Majors Occasions Portions Recalls Greedy Auras Rare Occasion

Author:Maya Deren

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Born: April 29, 1917
Died: October 13, 1961
Known for: Filmmaker
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