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.
Invisible Adversaries Export and Su Friedrich," referred to "Invisible Adversaries" as a feminist version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", noted that the film includes references to famous paintings and to "Un Chien Andalou", and wrote that therefore it "is visually rick, entertaining, striking, but also demanding." A few reviews, however, were negative. For example, London's "Time Out" wrote about the film that it is "[n]ot unlike """ and that it will "probably age as badly" and a reviewer for "The Heights" wrote that "I was expecting a great feminist work here, but got mediocrity. I cannot recommend that you see this