Meshes of the Afternoon
Directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
1943
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDGBFLPCaDE&feature=player_embedded
On first viewing of this video, it is apparent that the director has been experimental with both subject matter and the way it is portrayed....the slight jagged nature of the camera hints that, unlike the carefully still hollywood cameras, this is possibly hand held adding to it more natural movement to the action, like we are viewing through our own eyes and that we are moving along with the woman. The repetition of images is particularly interesting... creating almost a loop to the video, which at first is not apparent. It is not clear why this happens, but to me, it is an act against the conformity of structured Hollywood films, and it also gives it an eerie gloomy feel, portraying that the subject matter may possibly be losing their mind, while we too, begin to question our sanity as we are forced with image upon image which is the same.
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