Meshes of the Afternoon

I thought that this film was the coolest thing ever. I didn't quite understand it but everything that I saw onscreen seemed to visually make sense and fit together almost perfectly. Quite literally it all "meshes" (ahaha) together though individually the objects pictured seem unrelated.
The hand at the very beginning of the film, that sets the flower down was extremely eerie. The first few minutes of the film depicted the more mundane and realistic aspects of Deren's world. But that slender hand was so jarring if one was to imagine that those first minutes were supposed to be the "waking" moments.
The mirror-face character seemed to be a figure of death. The idea to use a mirror for a face was extremely cool to me. The idea of peering into the face of death and seeing one's own face and knowing that death is to come was poetic.
The film seems to be highly personal so it is difficult to say what all the different symbols mean. The key, the knife, the phone, the flower. The meaning behind all of these thing seem just beyond reach, though they obviously do have meaning. I definitely disagree with the elaborate explanation that some of the class came up with about fertility. Parts of the film may have suggested that idea but I think it's more likely that we chose to find these ideas in the film rather than have the film show it to us. I think the class may need to fall back on the idea of looking vs. seeing and allow the film to lay out all it has inside us.