Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Meshes of the Afternoon
Directed by Maya Derrin and Alexander Hamid
Written by Maya Derrin
1943/USA
First viewing/YouTube
#170 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

A young woman comes home to her apartment in Hollywood.  She falls asleep in an armchair and has a dream in which the objects around her turn sinister. Eventually, a man joins her and he is relatively sinister as well.  It is difficult to ascertain when the dream begins and ends.

Meshes of the Afternoon was not made for someone like me.  I have to admit that some of the images were beautiful and the effects were impressive for the time and circumstances of its making.

I watched this with soundtrack by Seaming that was commissioned by BIrds Eye View, for ‘Sounds and Silents’, and was performed live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London, in 2011, and later performed again live at Latitude Festival 2011, and in 2012 at Opera North Howard Assembly Rooms in Leeds, supporting Hauschka.  I don’t know if that was cheating.

Clip – music here not what I listened to, fortunately