Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Derren

heavy symbolism - objects becoming objects, figures becoming other figures, windows, door ways, paths, ocean, beach, mirrors (man's face inside of mirror, mirror face = man, but also female subject = mirror face), multiple personalities/realities, one of three - blood on her hands, chance or fate, the key is a knife, the knife is in the bread, the bread is sustenance or just normal, bread of life, knife for death, sexual attempts, breaking, revealing the illusion, playing with flatness of film space, two dimensional space, footsteps, deliberate movements, emphasizing gestures, stairway, upward, through window, into, from exterior to interior, within/without, confusion of space, up is down left becomes right, etc, crawling up the walls, removed, ghost like, detached and without, sleeping reality, reality of losing key, dropping the key, losing the way in, to the interior, from without, the exterior, began while walking, a flower dropped on the ground, the flower - feminine, sexual, youth, life, unattainable flower, the flower becomes the knife, the passive symbol of life becoming active tool for death, tool for breaking, shattering of illusion or reality, shattering of feelings, mystical mirror faced figure always walking down the path, forever chased, no perseverance, she gives up, returns home, is called home, compelled home, into the interior, away from action, from trying, chasing, resigned to defeat, to return, and sit, and close her eyes, closed off to the outside, venturing inside, the record player, no outside noise, no other instruments or sounds, no active processes