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Meshes of the Afternoon (short) (Blu-ray) (1943)
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.Director: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
OVERALL: Draw-
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Extras:DISC ONE (Blu-ray)
Alice Guy Blaché
* "Les chiens savants" (1902) (5:34)
* "Une histoire roulante" (1906) (2:51)
* "L'enfant de la barricade" (1907) (5:51)
* "Falling Leaves" (1912) (14:32)
* "Making an American Citizen" (1912) (14:35)
* "Girl in the Arm-Chair" (1911) (13:16)
Lois Weber
* "Suspense" (1913) (11:01)
* "Discontent" (1916) (25:12)
* "The Blot" (1921) (93:58)
Mabel Normand
* "Mabel's Strange Predicament" (1914) (12:30)
Audio commentary on "The Blot" by author and professor Shelley Stamp
DISC TWO (Blu-ray)
Madeleine Brandeis
* "The Star Prince" (1918) (58:52)
Germaine Dulac
* "La cigarette" (1919) (51:02)
* "La Souriante Mme. Beudet" (1923) (42:41)
Olga Preobrazhesnkaia
* "The Peasant Women of Ryazan" (1927) (89:36)
DISC THREE (Blu-ray)
Marie-Louise Iribe
* "Le Roi des Aulnes" (1929) (45:54)
Lotte Reiniger
- "Harlequin" (1931) (25:51)
- "The Stolen Heart" (1935) (10:48)
- "Papageno" (1935) (11:12)
Claire Parker
- "A Night on Bald Mountain" (1933) (9:57)
Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport)
- "The Woman Condemned" (1934) (65:03)
Leni Riefenstahl
- "Day of Freedom" (1935) (17:45)
Mary Ellen Bute
- "Parabola" (1937) (9:25)
- "Spook Sport" (1939) (8:22)
Dorothy Arzner
- "Dance, Girl, Dance" (excerpt) (1940) (4:40)
Maya Deren
- "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943) (15:05)
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.43:1
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Picture Format:1080p24 AVC MPEG-4
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Soundtrack(s):Silent LPCM 0.0
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Includes a 27-page booklet with an essay by Kate Saccone.
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Extras:The Shorts
- "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943) (14:18)
- "At Land" (1944) (15:29)
- "A Study in Choreography for Camera" (1945) (2:53)
- "The Private Life of a Cat" (1947) (29:32)
- "Ritual in Transfigured Time" (1946) (15:02)
- "Meditation on Violence" (1949) (12:52)
- "The Very Eye of Night" (1958) (15:26)
- "Divine Horsemen" (1947-1954) (50:36)
Audio Commentaries
- "Meshes of the Afternoon" by film curator Thomas Beard
- "At Land" by film curator Thomas Beard
- "Ritual in Transfigured Time" by film scholar Moira Jean Sullivan
- "Meditation on Violence" by film scholar Moira Jean Sullivan
- "The Very Eye of Night" by film curator Thomas Beard
- "Divine Horsemen" by film scholar Moira Jean Sullivan
Outtakes from the soundtrack recording sessions by Teiji Ito
- "Meshes of the Afternoon" (13:07)
- "The Very Eye of Night" (13:22)
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.39:1
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Picture Format:1080p24 AVC MPEG-4
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Soundtrack(s):Music DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono (score by Teiji Ito)
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Includes a booklet essays by film scholar Moira Jean Sullivan.
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Extras:DISC ONE (Blu-ray)
The Films (with Play All) (207:36)
* "Manhatta"
* "Ballet Mechanique"
* "Anémic cinéma"
* "The Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra"
* "Skyscraper Symphony
* "Mechanical Principles"
* "A Bronx Morning"
* "Lot in Sodom"
* "Poem 8"
* "An Optical Poem"
* "Thimble Theater"
* "Tarantella"
* "The Pursuit of Happiness"
* "1941"
* "Meshes of the Afternoon"
* "Meditation on Violence"
* "In the Street"
DISC TWO (Blu-ray)
The Films (with Play All) (210:43)
* "Four in the Afternoon"
* "Abstronic"
* "Eaux d'artifice"
* "Bells of Atlantis"
* "Evolution"
* "Gyromorphosis"
* "Hurry, Hurry!"
* "N.Y., N.Y."
* "9 Variations on a Dance Theme"
* "Castro Street (The Coming of Consciousness)"
* "Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter"
* "Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches" (excerpt)
* "Our Lady of the Sphere"
* "Love It, Leave It"
* "DL2 (Disintegration Line #2)"
* "Transport"
* "Sappho and Jerry, Part 1-3"
* "Ch'an"
* "Seasons..."
* "Manhatta" (with new music composed and performed by Henry Wolfe and Phil Carluzzo)
DISCS THREE & FOUR (DVD Copy) -
Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.45:1
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Picture Format:1080p24 AVC MPEG-4
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Soundtrack(s):Silent DTS-HD Master Audio 0.0
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Includes a 28 page booklet with an essay and extensive notes on every restoration by curator, filmmaker and film historian Bruce Posner.
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OVERALL: Draw
The Kino Lorber "The Maya Deren Collection" has the most extras for the film and Deren with the reissue score by Teiji Ito.
The Flicker Alley "Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film" has the reissue score by Teiji Ito with differing additional films.
The Flicker Alley "Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology" has the original silent version with no audio, with differing additional tilms.
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CUTS:
- Blu-ray A Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology America- Flicker Alley - No cuts (15:05)
- Blu-ray A The Maya Deren Collection America- Kino Lorber - No cuts (14:18).
- Blu-ray ALL Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film America- Flicker Alley - No cuts.
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Comparison added by James-Masaki_Ryan on 07/10/23
Comparison last updated by James-Masaki_Ryan on 24/04/24UPDATE LOG:
07/10/23: Initial entry.
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23/10/23: Added US Maya Deren, US Masterworks.
24/04/24: Updated US FA Masterworks.
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