Deren Beq grew up in the underground city of Anheim. As a young girl, she was quite fond of Turos and Ideria of Meridian, and they treated her like their own daughter. Deren aspired to be an artist ...

Maya Deren is a postmortem biographer’s dream subject. Not only did the bohemian dancer, poet, photographer, and filmmaker cross paths with an international who’s-who of avant-garde pre- and post-WWII ...

Craig Jones is a freelance film features writer for Collider. He began his freelancing career writing on rock and alternative music for fanzines, before winning a job as a gig reviewer for a regional ...

Deren strode across the landscape of American avant-garde cinema in the ’40s and ’50s with a theatrical flair befitting her namesake, Eleanora Duse (Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowskaia), while ...