Dark dreams of afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid this film stars Deren who also wrote and edited the film. A young woman returns home and falls asleep in her arm chair.

This short film does a better job of framing it's bizarre narrative than other surrealist/avant garde films I have seen but is still wildly open to interpretation. You can easily see how the film had more than a little influence on Mulholland Drive (2001) for example with some of the repeated elements from this film appearing in Lynch's film. There is some camera work and editing but the film may be a little ambiguous for some.

4/5