Metaphors in Maya Deren's Film Meshes of the Afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon
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Metaphor in Meshes of the Afternoon
Meshes of the après-midi (1943) is a short film by Maya Deren, filmed and directed in the US. The experimental film is full of psychological symbolism that uses metafiction and intertextuality to broaden the story beyond the movie. The video explores a woman's history of escaping reality, looking for responses to define her own identity and control over her own life.
Deren Maya uses metafiction to depict and examine the feelings of the female subject in the movie by introducing aspects of surrealism. The film utilizes a "valued dreamlike trans-sense irrationality as the primary motif of movie mounting" in the surrealistic tradition. Therefore, the film uses film techniques like slow motion and integrates visual juxtapositions in its whole story (Deren & Hammid, 1943). Maya Deren confuses the boundary between actor and spectator in Meshes of the Afternoon by turning between an objective camera and a subjective camera. Through symbols such as pappy, Deren conne...