Maya Deren

Deren also lectured extensively and helped establish New York's "underground" film circuit, setting up avant-garde screening venues which gave birth to independent distribution houses such as Amos Vogel's Cinema 16. An insightful and articulate writer, she authored "The Divine Horseman: The Living God of Haiti" (1953), the result of a trip to Haiti which was to be the basis of a film, and the seminal "An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film" (1946). A documentary on her life and legacy, "Invocation Maya Deren" was released in 1987.