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L’Invitation au Voyage

Directed by Germaine Dulac

Meshes of the Afternoon

Directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
Screening on Film
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  • L’Invitation au Voyage

    Directed by Germaine Dulac.
    France, 1927, 16mm, black & white, 36 min.

One of the major figures of the French film avant-garde of the 1920s and an early feminist, Germaine Dulac combined narratives of psychological realism with the visual techniques of the French Surrealist movement. In the rarely screened L’Invitation au Voyage, she employs a minimum of plot and maximum of atmosphere to convey her tale of the intense desire generated between a bored young wife and a handsome naval officer who meet in a Paris cabaret.

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    Directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.
    With Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid.
    US, 1943, 16mm, black & white, 18 min.

Dancer, ethnographer, philosopher, and “visual poet” Maya Deren began making films in the early 1940s, mainly psychodramas in which the filmmaker navigates a path through an anxiety-laden everyday world. In her first and most famous work, a woman (Deren) dreams within dreams about suicide and about inanimate objects that assume threatening aspects.

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