Friday 12 June 2009

Youtube Film Club:
Meshes of the Afternoon

I will retrospectively include my posts on Space Is The Place and Manos: The Hands of Fate in this series, and, obvious point though it may be, isn’t it wonderful how so many cinematic artefacts, short films in particular, that have been sought out and fetishised over the years, available only to the select few via bootleg tapes, extortionate, limited edition DVDs or metropolitan art cinema screenings whilst their reputation grows and mutates based more on hearsay than actual viewing, are now available to all at the touch of a button?

It is in that spirit this we present Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’ (1943), a work whose beauty and importance will hopefully speak for itself.

Watch on full screen with the lights off.

Banal as it may be to say so, I’ve had a crush the size of the alps on Ms Deren ever since I read her extraordinary book Divine Horsemen as a teenager. An incredible woman, a fearless artist, filmmaker, researcher, thinker, writer…. and so on. Just watch the damn thing anyways.

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