Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon write up

In this experimental piece, a woman is shown walking to her home. She encounters a man but continues to walk to her house, where she falls asleep in a chair. There are repeated scenes of the woman watching the same scene over and over with symbolic items such as a key, a knife, a flower, and a telephone. The scenes progress in intensity each time finally showing the woman killing her sleeping self. I think the film illustrates a woman's dreamlike interpretations of the incident she recently encountered.