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Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren in Meshes of the Afternoon
Directed by
  • Maya Deren
  • Alexandr Hackenschmied
Written byMaya Deren
Produced byMaya Deren
Starring
  • Maya Deren
  • Alexandr Hackenschmied
CinematographyAlexandr Hackenschmied
Edited byMaya Deren
Music byTeiji Ito (added in 1959)[1]
Release date
  • 1943 (1943)
Running time
14 minutes
CountryUnited States
BudgetUS$275

Meshes of the Afternoon is a 1943 American experimental silent short film directed by and starring wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied.

The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1990 due to its cultural and historical significance.

The film is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1977 and without a copyright notice.

  1. ^ Robertson, Robert (2015). Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination: Music, Image, Sound. London; New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. p. 73. ISBN 9781780767178. Retrieved 9 January 2016.

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