The only reason I saw this film was because it appears in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I personally can't see why. Basically The Woman (Maya Deren, also directing) a woman picks up a flower, picks up a falling key, unlocks her door, and inside there is a knife in a loaf of bread, and the phone is off the hook. She soon naps, and supposedly dreams of a hooded figure with the face of a mirror going down the driveway, the knife on the stair, then on the bed with her. The figure puts the flower on the bed, then disappears, and this is all repeated again. She goes downstairs to nap in the chair, waking to see The Man (Alexander Hammid, also directing) upstairs with the flower, putting it on the bed, and after a mirror breaks, he enters the house again. One of the final shots sees the woman sitting at the table with two replicas of herself. This may not be as gory or disturbing, this dreamy film is certainly just as original as Un Chien Andalou or Eraserhead. It may be just under twenty minutes, but the camera angles are certainly effective, the study of psychological and physical reality is quite interesting, and even though I was confused throughout, that I guess is the point, it is an experimental film. Good!
Review of Meshes of the Afternoon
