Meshes of the Afternoon Comments

  • Alessia 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    Perhaps the closest the film has come to its name as a dream machine, Deren's control of the image is almost perfect. An experience that is known to originate in one's own mind, but is not controlled by oneself. The same is true of dreams, and the same is true of movies, but only more vivid in a state of complete...

  • Stephon 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    The so-called confusion is that after shattering the mirror, oneself ushered in death. Shinji Ito's soundtrack is reminiscent of "Medea", but it never hits the point. The original version is more like a silent dream. Nicely edited, feet walking on sand and grass, broken mirrors engulfed by sea water. The passage from the window decorated with black gauze to the stairs and the roof is just too beautiful, the inner confusion, the dance of Maya as a dancer and the camera. Compared with the...

  • Grady 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    That's how you can't wake up from a...

  • Annie 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    After watching it for the nth time, there is still something I don't...

  • Amelie 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    David Lynch, but that's...

  • Piper 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    A feminist manifesto, a rebellion against men, a poem of mental breakdown, or an inner entanglement with...

  • Elinore 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    Passion for the first half...

  • Easter 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    Movie 16: A collection of short films from famous American directors. One of the most influential experimental films of the twentieth century. Maya Deren herself and her husband Alexander Hammid play all the roles in the play. This feminist classic depicts a woman's daydream in which everyday objects become mysterious and dangerous, and the film turns to obscure reflections on sex and death. The short film in 1943 involved dreams, I didn't see it too...

  • Raegan 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    The background music is scary...so experimental...don't get...

  • Torey 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    If Andalus is an experimental movie it's grandpa, this is it's...

Extended Reading
  • Ewald 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    Mirror man in youth

    "Mshes of afternoon", a 1943 experimental film, interprets the sexuality and death consciousness of Surrealism in the way of dreams within dreams.

        On a summer afternoon, a strange man in black held flowers. The flowers were delicate and tender, as if condensing the essence of a woman's life. We...

  • Lukas 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    Notes on Maya Deren's Pioneer Movies (1)

    Born in Kiev, Maya Deren is the mother of American avant-garde films. She uses images to explore the basic emotions and ultimate destiny of human beings (women), and she is recognized as the pioneer and founder of modern American avant-garde experimental films. . As Maya's most famous work, Lost...

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