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    Meshes of the Afternoon

    Maya Deren 1943 b/w 14min
    This has been Deren's most influential work. Deren, playing the central figure, is caught in an extended dream that in the final scene spills over into reality. She experiences a series of symbolic images and actions, a knife falls and reappears on the stairs, on the bed, in her hand; a key is dropped, cascades down the stairs, is passed around a dining table, emerges from her mouth and becomes the instrument of suicide.

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    Maya Deren

    One of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. DEREN was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, writer and photographer. Her 1943 film Meshes of the Afternoon remains her unassailable magnum opus, and is widely considered one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema.

    Maya Deren

    1977 Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti 神怪的騎馬人，活著的海地天神

    1958 The Very Eve of Night 夜之眼

    1948 Medifation on Violence 暴力省思

    1946 Ritual in Transfigured Time 變形時間中的儀式

    1945 A Study in Choreography for Camera 為攝影機所作之舞

    1944 At Land 陸地上

    1943 The Witch's Cradle 女巫的搖籃

    1943 Meshes of the Afternoon 午後的羅網

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