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Experimental Film

Meshes of the Afternoon” is a film by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.

[I]t’s long been canonized as not just a standard introduction to experimentalism in film studies classes, but also a critical favorite. In fact, it placed in the last Sight and Sound critics poll of the best films of all time at a respectable #16, above Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up and below John Ford’s The Searchers. — h/t Open Culture

.The original is silent; the music was added later by Feona Lee Jones.

Clearly David Lynch went to school on this.

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