Maya Deren - Meshes of the Afternoon

Deren appeared to use repeating objects and patterns like the flower, the knife, the figure with no face, and even the main woman of the film. In fact there is one particular scene where the woman is in two different places at the same time. Then there are scenes that don't appear to have much to do with the sequence (like suddenly appearing near an ocean), but the nature of the film to have no definite time or space seems to fix any issue of feeling like one has left the space created by Deren. This film uses a different approach to something that might seem completely natural, or even boring if it were simply captured on film.

I think this film was interesting in it's repetition. I personally probably wouldn't use experimental film as my own approach, but the ideas she had were a pleasant kind of different. She used a lot of imagery in relation to shadow, light, and space overall. Her sense of space is something I might take away from this for perhaps future use in my own films.