Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 13.29

You can see how Deren was influenced by Bunuel, but she makes this a phase-shift film, inventing a new genre (Trance Films) that used the camera as a tool for psycho-sexual self-investigation in a particularly feminine way. Fuzing the everyday, the dreamscape, the inner life and vision of a beautiful and talented dancer, choreographer, and film-maker, Meshes hints at Deren’s fascination with the occult - a theme that was to permeate the American counter culture, especially in the films of Kenneth Anger, Harry Everett Smith, Jack Smith and others. Derek was the doyenne of the American ‘underground’ film.

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