Maya Deren's Film 'Meshes Of The Afternoon'
Maya Deren’s film “Meshes of the Afternoon” shows a women’s struggles with her relationship through her dreams. In her dreams there are three different options that she’s debating and a hooded figure that keeps reappearing.
In this film the same woman is seen in four different roles. First she’s walks into the house and falling asleep in a chair, and then in her dream there are three other versions of herself. The first version gets pulled down the stairs by a force which makes me think she’s being pulled away from the life she is living. She symbolizes the choice to leave the boyfriend. Then the second girl who can’t seem to make it up the stairs, because of the same force that was effecting the first girl, to reach the hooded figure. This
In this film the same woman is seen in four different roles. First she’s walks into the house and falling asleep in a chair, and then in her dream there are three other versions of herself. The first version gets pulled down the stairs by a force which makes me think she’s being pulled away from the life she is living. She symbolizes the choice to leave the boyfriend. Then the second girl who can’t seem to make it up the stairs, because of the same force that was effecting the first girl, to reach the hooded figure. This