Meshes of the afternoon.

A: Access CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate B: 800' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Black & White Sound 488 Maya Deren Director: Maya Deren

A woman experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. She tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man.

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, genre, description