Meshes of the Afternoon

Name: Meshes of the Afternoon
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy
Released: 1943-01-01
Duration: 14 min
Rating: 4.5
Cast: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

1/1/1943

Runtime

14 mins

Genres

Mystery Fantasy

Overview

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$275

Revenue

Homepage

How It Feels

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A hypnotic descent into a woman's fractured psyche where reality dissolves and collapses, rendered through mesmerizing repetition and disorienting spatial logic. Watching it feels like being trapped inside someone else's nightmare, beautiful and deeply disturbing.

Mood

UnsettlingContemplativeDread-soaked

Themes

IdentityMortalityObsessionMemory

Pacing

Meditative

Look

HandheldFormalistHigh-contrast

Structure

Unreliable narrator

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

Maya Deren

The Woman

Alexander Hammid

The Man

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

surrealist pieces of art like this fuel my passion for making films.
films like these are what really allows the weird, the unconvential to shine and while people like david lynch are the poster boy for such things, we need more film makers like him to add a much needed variety to surrealist films. its not even that david lynch created such a concept but he's probably one of the most famous to do so.