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    Meshes of the Afternoon is a 1943 American experimental silent short film directed by and starring wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied...
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    Maya Deren (category American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent)
    established notions of physical space and time, innovating through carefully planned films with specific conceptual aims. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), her...
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    Alexandr Hackenschmied (category Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States)
    to the U.S. in 1938 and became involved in American avant-garde cinema. He is best known for three films: Crisis (1939), Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)...
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  • innovative vision of the way dreams could be represented. Maya Deren made numerous silent short films, among them the renowned Meshes of the Afternoon replete with...
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  • was restored in 2004 by film preservation expert David Shepard. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid is an early American...
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    A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (French: Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte) was painted from 1884 to 1886 and is Georges...
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  • Teiji Ito (category Japanese expatriates in the United States)
    studied under a master drummer. Ito would also compose the score for Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon at Deren's request. Ito married Deren in 1960 and remained...
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    Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created...
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  • Oneiric (film theory) (category History of film)
    Jacques Tourneur (e.g., I Walked With a Zombie) Maya Deren (e.g., Meshes of the Afternoon) Wojciech Has Kenneth Anger Bertram D. Lewin Experimental film...
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    Fauvism (redirect from The Scissors Within)
    at the end of the Afternoon, 1902, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York André Derain, Self-portrait in the Studio, 1903, National Gallery of Australia...
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    The Metamorphosis (‹See Tfd›German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's...
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    Matisse in 1910, at the request of Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin, who bequeathed the large decorative panel to the Hermitage Museum...
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    The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. Published...
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    Potemkin (1925) Metropolis (1927) Un Chien Andalou (1929) Villa Savoye (1931) Fallingwater (1936) Citizen Kane (1941) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)...
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    The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed...
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    Claude Debussy (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and...
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    Fallingwater (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania)
    house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Situated in the Mill Run section of Stewart township, in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania...
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    And Experimental Films Gallery: From 'Meshes Of The Afternoon', 'The Holy Mountain', 'Scorpio Rising' To 'The Lighthouse' & More". Deadline. Retrieved...
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    Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–1886, The Art Institute of Chicago Vincent van Gogh, Cypresses, 1889, Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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    style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era. It then became characteristic of American...
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  • Andrei Tarkovsky (category People's Artists of the RSFSR)
    including the FIPRESCI prize, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in addition to the Golden Lion...
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    Joseph Conrad (redirect from The Conradian)
    Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently...
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    active during the silent era. He is widely-known for directing the landmark 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist...
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  • be traced to the decades before the turn of the 20th century, but can be included because they evolved beyond the musical boundaries of the 19th-century...
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    Marcel Proust (category French people of German-Jewish descent)
    the consolidation of the Republic. Much of In Search of Lost Time concerns the vast changes, most particularly the decline of the aristocracy and the...
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    canvas painting by the artist Kazimir Malevich. The first of four painted versions, the original was completed in 1915 and described by the artist as his breakthrough...
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    theory in Death in the Afternoon (1932). Balassi says Hemingway applied the iceberg theory better in The Sun Also Rises than in any of his other works,...
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  • (1929) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Cat People (1942) Last Year at Marienbad (1961; also been called a postmodernist film) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)...
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    Igor Stravinsky (category Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris)
    citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music...
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    Dada (category Counterculture of the 1910s)
    in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement...
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