Maya Deren - Filmmaker

The 1940s is often considered to be the Golden Age of Hollywood and was also the decade that Maya Deren began making her best-known films. Maya Deren believed that the art of film had so much more potential than what it was being used for. In her various articles on film and filmmaking, she praises and encourages creative use of the camera, new ways of storytelling and the absolute freedom that comes along with being an independent filmmaker. Deren also had her own ideas about what constituted creativity and what did not. By doing this, her articles about the art of film actually become as restrictive as the studio system she denounced.