Meshes of the Afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon

  • Director: Maya Deren
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: None
  • Release date: 1943
  • Sound mix: Mono, Silent
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Redes de la tarde
  • In the long and boring afternoon, the light and shadow are lazy, the branches and trees are swirling, the flowers appear without reason, and the woman follows for no reason again, and a mysterious figure with a shaved shadow appears in the corner. The long sleep in the afternoon released all the nightmares of the subconscious, and the woman who was flying in the air caught a glimpse of herself lying on a chair and sleeping. The key was spit out from the woman's mouth, and the key turned into a sharp blade, and when the knife went down, it split open the vast ocean of cracked lenses. Maya Deren (1917-1961), the mother of avant-garde cinema, was a Soviet Jew who immigrated to the United States at the age of five. In the process of growing up, I stumbled,...

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    • Release date 1943
    • Filming locations Maya Deren's house, 1466 North Kings Road, West Hollywood, California, USA

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    Budget

    $275 (estimated)

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    • By Trycia 2022-03-13 08:01:01

      Confusion in the afternoon

      Maya Deren, known as the spokesperson for American avant-garde cinema. It was she who gave birth to the American avant-garde film. She is both a creator, publisher, and propagandist, as well as a theoretician. Avant-garde and avant-garde, are contrary to the orthodox film. It cannot compete with tradition. It's just a rare reference. A faint beam of light came slowly from the depths.

    • By Jaylin 2022-03-13 08:01:01

      cut yourself

      The characters in the dream are Deren's self.
        The mirror person is the self that Deren wants to destroy-because it is completely mirror, and its connotation is that this self is shaped by others (husband), lacks independence, and is one of Deren's self-system Alien, she (or rather, they, Deren's other selves) wants to destroy it. This is implied by the appearance of the husband's face in the mirror at the end of the film—this self emerges according to the husband's desires....

    • By 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 couldn't help but keep up with his pace, weaving through the shadows of the trees and the mottled enclosures, walking in a hurry, but we couldn't catch up. When the man in black looked...

    • By Gerardo 2022-03-13 08:01:01

      The Confused Story Outline of the Afternoon Single Male Lao Song Version

      Maybe in reality, your body is just to serve your shadow. When you close your eyes and take a nap, in the dream your body is truly free. However, due to the habit in reality, your body has long been slavish to shadows, constantly chasing a shadow in your dreams, and the face of the shadow is a mirror. The cycle goes on and on, over and over, and your flesh realizes that perhaps they can only truly be free by killing your actual sleeping flesh. So she quietly approached you who were sleeping...

    • By Davonte 2022-03-13 08:01:01

      female nightmare

      The heroine's dream in the short film is divided into four stages, including three-stage repeated dreams, plus a dream within a dream.

      The structure of the film itself is a deeper and multi-layered nightmare. Even the realistic parts at the beginning and end are a hot and dizzying dream created by the director.

      Until the heroine sits in a chair and closes her eyes, all she has experienced is the reality of the afternoon. She first picked up the flowers on the...

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    • By Breanna 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      Even if the light is obscure, it is...

    • By Lamar 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      6. It's said to have a big impact, but it doesn't seem to matter...

    • By Larue 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      But that's it~ a dream~... This is the legendary death of a dream,...

    • By Violette 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      Freud's dream: flower, knife, mirror, ring, insanity, key and door, man and woman, sex and...

    • By Jade 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      In the case of silent films, I have only seen Metropolis before. In contrast, this is a bit obscure and I have to watch it for a long time before I have a concept. ....

    Behind the scenes gags

    One of the first 16MM cameras that Maya Deren owned was bought on the second-hand market with hundreds of dollars left by her father after her death. The machine that was originally used to shoot newsreels during the war turned out to be a medium for Deren to break out of New York's underground movies. 
    Utilizing the "layered" structure of multiple dreams, each layer of dreams deforms the "story time" by geometric conversion. The...
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