Meshes of the Afternoon Reviews

Trycia 2022-03-13 08:01:01

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...

Jaylin 2022-03-13 08:01:01

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...

Ewald 2022-03-13 08:01:01

"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...

Gerardo 2022-03-13 08:01:01

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...

Davonte 2022-03-13 08:01:01

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...

Lavada 2022-03-13 08:01:01

The first time I watched Lost in the Afternoon, I was very amazed. First of all, I was surprised that an experimental film with such avant-garde consciousness could be made in the 1940s. This was also the first American avant-garde film with a narrative structure. Lost in the afternoon directly...

Wilbert 2022-03-13 08:01:01

The charm of the Western avant-garde lies in the fact that many times the meaning of the film can only be understood and cannot be described in words. "Lost Afternoon" is the closest to a dream I have ever seen in an avant-garde film, and it is definitely a nightmare.

Maya Deren was an important...

Francesca 2022-03-13 08:01:01

The film uses what the heroine sees when she opens the door and enters her own home before taking a nap: the key that fell from the door, the layout of the room, the knife on the dining table, and the phone in the living room to compile a dream for clues. Freud said in his "Interpretation of...

Myrtis 2022-03-13 08:01:01

Excerpted from: You Fei. The World Film Theory Trend [M]. China Radio and Television Press, 2002.

Lost Afternoon is Deren's most important work, in which Deren herself plays the emotionally fluctuating, erratic protagonist who is frightened by a series of apparently trivial events, leading to...

Eunice 2022-03-13 08:01:01

The Nesting of Dreams and the Perfect Application of Lacan's Mirror Theory. The image of the man in the dream at the end is also proved to be the mirror projection of the woman. Breaking the mirror person is the other who breaks the self, and at the same time, he is also killed by the male order....