Yellow House Artist Collective exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, there was also a puppet theatre, light shows, performance of plays and regular screening of films. These included a range of classic, avant garde and modern works such Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou", Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", Phil Noyce's "Better to Reign in Hell", Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" and Peter Weir's "Count Vim's Last Exercise", as well as works by Albie Thoms, Bruce Petty, Mick Glasheen and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. In 1990 the Art Gallery of New South Wales staged an exhibition which comprised, in part, reconstruction of some of the
Maya Deren influence because of the surreal nature of "Meshes of the Afternoon". Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou" (1928) is on the premier examples of film representing the structure of the subconscious. Deren detested this comparison because of the surrealist movement's interest in the entertainment value of its subject more than its meaning. The form of "Meshes of the Afternoon" does not compare to Un Chien Andalou either. Psychoanalysis of "Meshes of the Afternoon" from a Freudian viewer or Jungian viewer attempted to decode the symbolism in the film to uncover what Deren was saying about identity and sexuality. Deren adamantly objected her