Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is a short experimental film directed by the wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The film’s narrative is circular and repeats several motifs, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper–like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook and an ocean. Through creative editing, distinct camera angles, and slow motion, the surrealist film depicts a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality.
In 1990, Meshes of the Afternoon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”, going into the registry in the second year of voting.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshes_of_the_Afternoon
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More about Maya Deren: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren
More about Alexander Hammid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Hackenschmied
