Avantgarde film-makers
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Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer ; February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker , actor and author of two controversial Hollywood Babylon books.
Maya Deren
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. The function of film, Maya believed, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions, lending her focus to be dynamic and always-evolving. [ 1 ] She combined her interests in dance, voodoo and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films.