Meshes of the Afternoon

Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon was also shown during our seminar but this particular film caught my attention. The film utilises circular narrative but changes aspects with each new cycle. The film has various motifs including a hooded figure - possibly symbolising death, with a mirror for a face, a flower on the ground, a knife, a key, etc.

I particularly liked the use of stop tricks between the key and the knife in the sequence with multiple protagonists at a table. This concept of multiple protagonists from different times in the piece is something I'd like to explore through my own film - however, I will only use two protagonists to show the differing sides to the protagonist's mind.

Meshes will be very influential to our piece because we want to use similar stop tricks between objects and watching it had given us more ideas on what kind of thing we could do for our piece.