Meshes of the Afternoon - Deren's approach to time through editing

This film is one that has constantly been playing in my mind as I have been developing my ideas this semester and I was very happy to see it come up in the A L Rees reading in week three of the course as it has forever been one of my favourite films. I am especially interested in the way that Deren in this film ( and actually in many of her other films, ritual in transfigured time etc.) has warped the sense of space and time that the viewer experiences. She uses editing to juxtapose moments that physically cannot share the same space/time and refuses to comply with rules of continuity and physics. This produces a dreamlike state that the films narrative is created around and allows for Deren to create new and innovative experimental techniques because she is not beholden to any rules of cinema. She repeats her own form in many of the shots almost creating multiple parallel universes for us to view. I really like how she creates colliding worlds through repetition here and I hope i can take that idea of repetition and apply it to my ideas of colliding times through my own work