Maya Deren - Meshes of the Afternoon

This is definitely a film that must be watched the whole way through in order to be understood. She moves from using shadows, feet, and then a first person perspective to describe her character until she gets to the point where the audience sees doubles and triples and quadruples and then she begins to show her actual body. The cuts between the key and knife are interesting. The key seems to be the object that knows the truth. And even when he character discovers she is the one with the knife, it doesn't seem like the knife is the one to kill her directly. After smashing the head of the man with the knife which ends up being glass, and the shards fall in ocean, the shards seem to reappear at the end as the culprit of her death when the man follows the path she originally took at the beginning. Throughout the film she uses many disorienting shots, anything from the camera wabbling and following her around to extreme angles. There is no defined clarity about the details but in the end the events leading up to the murder are at least understood as to how they came about and what part they play.