10 Bizarre Experimental Films You Won't Believe Actually Exist

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.