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Maya Deren in Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

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Meshes of the Afternoon

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  • A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
  • On her way home, a solitary woman picks up a frail flower, then drops her key. Exhausted, the mysterious lady finally enters her home and falls asleep in a deep, comfortable armchair. But even in her dreams, an intangible dark presence stains her afternoon nap; she tries to catch it, but her efforts are in vain. As the confined environment gradually becomes a maze-like purgatory, bizarre but perfect doppelgangers of her physical self materialise in the house. Before long, an old record player playing a never-ending tune, a telephone, and a sharp, serrated bread knife become part of the nightmare. But the blade thirsts for blood, and the woman hungers for a way out. Can the undivided mind/matter entity escape consciousness?—Nick Riganas
  • 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 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 awakens 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?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

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