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Meshes Of The Afternoon

1943, Movie, 15 mins

Meshes Of The Afternoon: Review

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON is the first and best film in the canon of Maya Deren, the pioneering director and star of the New American Cinema movement. This experimental short from 1943 still achieves a striking effect years after countless imitations. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON contains a dream-like narrative structure, where time and space are represented in unconventional and sometimes oblique ways. Deren plays a young woman who follows a strange, cloaked male figure along a su... read more leave a comment