[Image in the Snow] is a combination of poetry, music and cinematography which envisions the march through life, through the city streets, and finally through a cemetery, of a young man in search of spiritual understanding and peace. Miss Deren's photography, Mr. [William] Maas's poetry, and Mr. [Ben] Weber's music complement each other so closely and are so completely interwoven as to produce a single work of art in which no one element is dominant. In combination with Miss Deren's simple, yet daring and frequently unorthodox photographic techniques, this collaboration produces a startling mobile fresco in three dimensions, which engrosses the attention despite the fact that no conventional story apparatus is present….

[In Meshes of the Afternoon, A Study in Choreography for Camera, At Land, Ritual in Transfigured Time, and Meditation on Violence] the photographer, largely without the aid of music or sound of any kind, has been...