Meshes Of The Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)

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Narrative Structure

A woman starts of by picking up a flower she finds on a floor and entering her home, finding a bread knife, telephone, record player and key are all left lying about. After falling asleep in an armchair, we see a hooded figures with a single flower in his hand and another version of the woman entering the house to find that the objects have moved position and the woman is still sleeping. This happens several times before finally one version of herself pocket up the knife and goes to kill her sleeping self, causing her to wake up and realize that a man is standing over her which we are to assume is her husband. It appears that she is now awake buy throws a knife at her husband shattering him like glass. We then see the film from the husbands perspective as he enters the house…

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