Maya Deren was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren is a multi-genre artist known primarily as a filmmaker but who has also worked in dance, poetry, and film theory, paying particular attention to the materials involved in film and filmmaking. His films include multiple images of fabrics and fabrics, and his writings consistently emphasize the physical components involved in filmmaking, the camera tools, the film equipment, and the bodies of the actors. For my final essay, I chose Meshes of the Afternoon. As well as being Maya Deren's most successful film. A Mesh of the Afternoon is a short experimental film directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, wife and husband. The film's narrative is circular and repeats a series of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower along the driveway, a falling key, an open door, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper-like cloaked figure with a mirror to protect yourself. a face, a telephone off the hook and an ocean. The reason this movie is so strong is because it's about herself. Maya Deren got her ideas from personal experience, feelings and emotions. “The cinematic image, whose intangible reality is made up of lights and shadows projected in the air and captured on the surface of a silver screen, presents itself to us as the reflection of another world” (Deren 2005e). This statement conveys the film as not only magical and otherworldly but also material: although it possesses an "intangible reality," it is the product of objects moving in space. He did this through his dream sequences, multiple selves, and artistic use of time. and space.Deren exploits this "contrast" between...... middle of the paper......utube.com/watch?v=4S03Aw5HULU http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225773?&Search = yes&searchText=Maya&searchText=Deren&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DMaya%2BDeren%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearch=&item=5&ttl=1940&returnArticleService=showFullText http://www.jstor.org/s table / 20026556?&Search=yes&searchText=Maya&searchText=Deren&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DMaya%2BDeren%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearch=&item=2&ttl=1940&returnArticleService= showFullText http://www .jstor . org/stable/778529?&Search=yes&searchText=Maya&searchText=Deren&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DMaya%2BDeren%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearch=&item=1&ttl=1940&returnArticleService =showFullText http:// www.entertainmentscene360.com/index.php/meshes-of-the-afternoon-meshes-afternoon-maya-deren-deren-maya-15109/