Meshes of the Afternoon
United States • English • 1943 • 14m
Synopsis
Cinematic trance-maker Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid launched an underground revolution with this avant-garde landmark—shot in their Hollywood home, but a world away from the commercial gloss of the dream factory—in which a cascade of uncanny images evoke a woman’s fractured psyche.
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Credits
Crew
Cast
Maya Derenas The Woman
Alexander Hammidas The Man