Maya Deren | USA | 14 minutes | 1943 | no dialogue
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she sleeps, she sees a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects like a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. She sees Grim Reaper in her bedroom who hides a knife under the pillow. She tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. Man leading her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices man's posture (hiding knife under the pillow) as same like the Grim reaper in the dream however she eventually hits him back. [more]
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