Maya Deren - Meshes of the Afternoon (Experimental film)

Scene's from Deren's - Meshes of the Afternoon.


Title: Meshes of the Afternoon
Directors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid.
Year: 1943
Genre: Experimental film
Run time: 14min
color: Black and white

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/

A solitary flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a phone off the hook: discordant images a woman sees as she comes home. She naps and, perhaps, dreams. She sees a hooded figure going down the driveway. The knife is on the stair, then in her bed. The hooded figure puts the flower on her bed then disappears. The woman sees it all happen again. Downstairs, she naps, this time in a chair. She awakes to see a man going upstairs with the flower. He puts it on the bed. The knife is handy. Can these dream-like sequences end happily? A mirror breaks, the man enters the house again. Will he find her?

Video - Meshes of the Afternoon