Director Maya Deren would lead the movement into the ’40s with her groundbreaking short Meshes of the Afternoon. She abandoned surrealism and instead focused on using multiple exposures and ...

We actually really like Meshes of the Afternoon. It's an early experimental film from the 1940s, and one of the few from a female director, Maya Deren. The film has a circular narrative ...

Special film screening of avant-garde classic, Maya Deren’s Meshes of the afternoon (1943) followed by a discussion between artists Vivian Lynn and Sriwhana Spong Vivian Lynn and Sriwhana Spong ...

This seminal avant-garde short film, from 1943, directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, fulfills the spectral promise of the title: a woman, played by Deren, does more or less nothing one day ...

The double screening will include Maya Deren’s experimental and ground-breaking avant-garde short film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) and David Lynch’s surrealist neo-noir Mulholland Drive (2001).

I chose Maya Deren’s 'Meshes of the Afternoon,’ so I did a poem in response to that film. “And then it turned into a generative practice, so I just started going through Deren’s ...