 Directors Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid portrayed the role of the woman and the man respectively.The film was the product of Deren's and 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.