Meshes

 

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MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON-1943-Weird black & white Avant Garde short by the American husband and wife team of Alexander Hammid and Maya Deren. It's dream-like imagery and unusual camera work, heavily influenced by LE CHIEN ANDALOU (1929) and L' AGE D'OR (1930), have made it an influential experimental film. A woman (Deren) may or may not be dreaming...

It was originally shown silent. 18 years later a soundtrack of koto and percussion was added. After the filmmakers divorced, both made other short films. Deren however became interested in Haiti and the Vodou religion. Some have said she killed a man by placing a curse on him!

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