Alexander Hackenschmied

Alexander Hackenschmied (1907–2004) was one of the most important figures of Czech film and photographic avant-garde. In Czechoslovakia, he made several short films (Bezúčelná procházka (Aimless Walk), Na Pražském hradě (At Prague Castle)). After the film Crisis he was forced to leave the country and moved to the United States. He went down in the history of cinematography mainly as the author of Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a film he made with his then-wife, Maya Deren.