witchinghourz:The Mirror-Faced Grim Reaper in Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)dir. by Maya Deren, Alex
witchinghourz:The Mirror-Faced Grim Reaper in Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)dir. by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid“This film is endowed with an acute sense of restlessness and alienation; reflecting this uncanny estrangement in the doubling, tripling and quadrupling of its central character, and in its cyclic narrative, a structure that seems condemned to repetition. Why is the hooded Death figure constructed as a kind of mirror? Are we dealing with Nietzsche’s notion of ‘eternal return’ (the theory that the universe and all existence and all energy has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time and space)? You could go on forever about the meaning buried in this particular work. It invites and eludes analysis.” – Wendy Haslem & Rick Kelley -- source link
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