Aquieu
5Nov11
lol'd
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Danny Indio
22Mar12
Meshes of the Afternoon starts slow and builds up to an amazingly surreal climax. She always did so much with so little... 2 actors (1 of them herself), 1 location and ordinary props. A true artist.
WhatsUpWill
22Jan12
Well, that was pretty fucking cool. I wish it had ended a bit sooner though. Pretty inspiring for a film maker such as myself. Nice.
Alex
29Aug11
Wait, I'm confused about the movie... so the cops knew internal affairs were setting them up?
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Judicial Joe
9Jun11
One of the best films I've ever seen. Smashes the space-time continuum and repossesses dream logic from Freudian cliche. Deren has become my favorite experimental filmmaker.
Mathieu Langlois and 2 others like this
comeandsee
1Feb11
a masterpiece. this work is truly great, in the manner in which it probes the dream state. it also provides a work of true paranoia which both comes from her status as an emigre and the war time volatility of the historical backdrop. deren says a lot about the manner in which a killer could easily be a love, linking love and death so acutely. this is quite simply likely to be the great short ever made.
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Alexander Robino
19Nov10
It has a nice disturbed ambiance about it, but the overall point of it just didn't reach me. I had to read up on it afterward. That said though, I completely acknowledge the influence that it's had on cinema. Granted, one could use the argument that a lot of art is about simply evoking emotional responses. I suppose it was the suggestion of a narrative that left my racing to grasp onto a distinguishable plot.
thisisnotforyou
30Apr10
I just watched this one. I like this one. I get the feeling of the Doppelganger in this one. This one is short. A short film is a hard one to claim. It is not easy. This one succeeds. I watched this one hard focusedly. This one got me writing. One can create while watching in this one. This one is a portal like. This one has a wondermore, temple, steeply mysterious, empty lake of a burning library uncoveted in the bowels of an arcade in Saudi Arabia... two kids playing N.A.R.K ... Beware. Though. This one. Is sad. THIS IS NOT FOR YOU
filmcapsule
7Apr10
An intriguing and immensely detailed surrealistic portrait of one woman's mind. I'm sure I don't understand all of the feminist theory that is often used to analyze this film, but its mood and the ingenuity with which it's created is very accessible. It creates a disorienting effect by taking the "rules" of film semantics and inverting them: unexplained POV shots, discontinuous motion through locations, etc.
Inner Pattern
9Mar10
I gave this 4 stars but it's more a 4 1/2 but you can't put half stars on here. This is a really great short surreal film from 1943. This is very David Lynch-esq and this came out before Lynch was even born so I'm guessing he was inspired by this. How couldn't he? I've yet to see 'Un Chien Andalou' but if your even remotely into surreal films check it out. It's on youtube in 2 parts http://tinyurl.com/aef4af
Patricia
6Mar10
I love this, very provocative with the use of camera work and style. It seems new to me, even though it was made in 43. It is just brillant, I don't think after watching this short picture, that you could ever forget it. It's strange and out there, a clear vision of the use of dreams and weird reality all rolled into one. A very dark artistic film.
richmondhill
4Sep09
Coiled and insistently codified, this is a mesmerising cat’s cradle of a short film. Full of terpsichorean movement and recurring psychological motifs, it has the benefit of brevity and a beguiling circular motion. A good starting point for anyone exploring the American underground cinema and avant garde.