10 Bizarre Experimental Films You Won't Believe Actually Exist

By Audrey Fox /

2. Meshes Of The Afternoon

We actually really like Meshes of the Afternoon. It's an early experimental film from the 1940s, and one of the few from a female director, Maya Deren. The film has a circular narrative, with repeating images and sequences that take on the ambiguous and unstable structure of a dream. Meshes of the Afternoon revolves around a woman who is walking home, and keeps seeing a tall, imposing, dark figure with a mirror for a face. Certain images with psychological significance are shown throughout the film, including a key falling, a knife in a loaf of bread, and a phone off the hook. The film is engaging and feels like it does have a story, but one that is far removed from reality. Meshes of the Afternoon manages to be both frightening and fascinating, and has a quality similar to that feeling when you wake up from a very interesting dream but can't quite remember what it was about.