Meshes of the Afternoon Hammid's desire to create an avant garde personal film that dealt with devastating psychological problems, like the French surrealist films of the 1920s such as Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou" (1929) and "L'Age d'Or" (1930). Deren and Hammid wrote, directed and performed in the film. Although Deren is usually credited as its principal artistic creator, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who knew the couple, has claimed in his book "Film at Wit's End" that "Meshes" was in fact largely Hammid's creation, and that their marriage began to suffer when Deren received more credit. The original print had no score.
Préludes flasques (pour un chien) Barrel"), a title Debussy found so offensive that Satie changed it to "Avec camaraderie" ("With Friendship"). He may already have been dissatisfied with the work as it stood. After publisher E. Demets rejected the score in the first week of August, Satie told his protégé Alexis Roland-Manuel, "I am going to destroy the "Préludes flasques", and begin anew." He followed through on the second part of this statement with the "Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien)", which he completed by August 23 and successfully sold to Demets in September. In his 1948 biography of Satie, Rollo H. Myers cited Roland-Manuel