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Meshes of the afternoon

Artist: Maya Deren
Production year: 1943
Duration: 00:00:00
Catalogued as: FANTASY/VISIONARY, NON NARRATIVE/TIME, ABSTRACTION/PSYCHEDELIA

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Made in collaboration by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid, the film depicts a woman's imaginative dream and the way it eventually destroys the woman herself. In this poetic psychodrama, she performs as the central character inside of a cyclic narrative condemned to repetition. Inspired by Eisenstein's notion of rhythmic montage and Méliès' magical effects, the piece has no dialogue, but rather an innovative soundtrack that Teiji Ito's added in 1959, with a drumbeat syn ...

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