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.
Filmmaking technique of Luis Buñuel for example, combining the sound of gushing water with an image of a stagnant pool, or exaggerating the volume level of chiming bells. Music is an important part of Buñuel's early films, to such an extent that, for his one silent film "Un Chien Andalou", in his sixties, he took the trouble to create a sonorised version. He based this version on the music (Wagner, a South American tango) played at its original screening. "Un Chien Andalou" was his first film—made in the silent era—and was called "the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert. One critic