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Meshes of the Afternoon (Paperback)
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Meshes of the Afternoon (Paperback)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Loot Price R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), filmed by Maya Deren and her then
husband Alexader Hammid in their bungalow above Sunset Boulevard
for a mere $274.90, is the most important film in the history of
American avant-garde cinema. The artistic collaboration between
Deren and Hammid finds its distorted reflection in the vision of
the film's tormented female protagonist. Its focus - through a
series of intricate and interlocking dream sequences - on female
experience and the domestic sphere links Meshes to the Hollywood
melodramas of the period, while its unsettling atmosphere of dread,
death and doubles makes it a counter-cinematic cousin to film noir.
The film has influenced not only the subsequent history of
experimental film, but also on the work of Hollywood auteurs. It is
a touchstone of women's film-making, of modern cinema and of modern
art. John David Rhodes traces the film's history back into the
lives of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, but in particular that of
Deren. He reads the film as a culmination of Deren's abiding
interest in modernism and her intense engagement in socialist
politics. Rhodes argues that while the film remains a powerful
point of reference for feminist film-makers and experimentalists,
it is also an example of political art in the broadest terms. In
his foreword to this new edition, Rhodes reflects upon the film's
continuing importance for and influence upon feminist and
avant-garde filmmaking.
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