Maya Deren stares out the window in one of the most iconic images in all of underground film history. If for some strange reason you don’t know, this is a scene from her first film Meshes of the Afternoon, co-directed with her then husband Alexander Hammid in 1943. The film is a haunting, surreal tale of loss and insanity.
If you’ve never seen this film, you must immediately. It’s currently available on DVD and streaming on Netflix, or be bold and buy it on Amazon.
And if you want to find out more about Maya Deren, or what was going on in underground film at the same time she was making films, check out Bad Lit’s Underground Film Timeline of the 1940s.
