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This 4 page paper discusses Maya Deren films and how she brought her inner emotional workings into mundane daily life. Her presentation and choreographic style are the representation of surreal art, or the resolution of dream and reality. Bibliography lists 5 references.
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are about how a person brings inner emotional workings into the daily decisions made in life. Her presentation and choreography style is the representation of surreal art. As Andre Breton
said, it was a resolution of "the contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a surreality" (Danto 232). Maya Deren
said about Meshes of the Afternoon that her film represented the way that persons subconscious mind shapes decisions related to incidents that happen in daily life. Deren successfully developed
this idea in Meshes of the Afternoon and Ritual in Transfigured Time by stopping, slowing down and speeding up choreography and dance in the films to reflect the subconscious at
work. In this process, she created a view of the subconscious as a shadow self following everything that happens in daily life and interpreting it until it becomes surreality.
Surrealist Connections in Meshes of the Afternoon In Meshes of the Afternoon, Deren begins with the simple act of walking to her apartment
where she opens the door on normal life, except some objects in the apartment are out of place, a crust of bread on the table with a knife still perched
within it, a telephone off the hook on the stairs, as if someone is on hold. Her mind immediately begins to judge the situation emotionally.
As Deren enters the surreality of her subconscious mind, she shows herself spread out on a chair in a subconscious state. At the same time she enters
this state, she is walking tentatively upstairs to see why these tasks were left undone. You can sense her asking herself, "is everything alright?" as she places those careful footfalls
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