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Meshes of the Afternoon

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NR,18min

Genre:

Drama

Release:

1943

Director:

Maya Deren

Starring:

Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

Synopsis: One of the most important and influential experimental films of the 20th century, Maya Deren's 18-minute feminist classic explores the interior images of a woman (played by Deren) whose daydreams restore mystery and danger to the ordinary objects of her everyday life. Deren veers away from plot to advance her view that a film should be like a poem: a deep tissue of images designed to examine a mood or startle us with the strangeness of the things around us. Using film as an artistic medium rather ... Full Synopsis

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	Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review The film that spearheaded the post-World War II American avant-garde film movement, Maya Deren's 14-minute Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) took the traditional concern of Hollywood melodramas with female repression and transformed it into an enigmatic meditation on eroticism and death. Deren and husband Alexander Hammid worked without a script, played all the roles themselves, and built the film out ... Full Review

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	Maya Deren The Woman Alexander Hammid The Man

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