Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · short film · 14 min · ★ 7.6 · 95% critics
A woman returns home, falls asleep, and slips into a vivid dreamlike loop where familiar objects and spaces repeat in unsettling ways. As time and place stop making sense, eerie images and a shadowy presence blur the line between reality and inner fears.
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Details
- Years
- 1943
- Release date
- 1943-01-01
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 14 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (441 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you’re into short, surreal, dream-logic stories with eerie repetition and open-to-interpretation meaning; Not for you if you want clear answers, straightforward plotting, or traditional horror like Orpheus.
Pros: haunting surreal imagery; tense dreamlike mood; memorable symbolic objects | Cons: hard to follow; repetitive structure; may feel pretentious
Themes
- suicide
- dreams
- key
- woman director
- short film
Cast & crew
Maya Deren
as The Woman
Alexander Hammid
as The Man
Directed by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid