Book of Days & The Witch's Cradle
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On her pilgrimage, a heathen nun has elected to stop by the Star & Shadow Cinema and hold a service in the form of a couple movies. They have lots to say, and she wants to know if you have anything to say about them!
THE WITCH’S CRADLE is Maya Deren’s unfinished seance; hands and body parts dance around surrealist objects constructed by Marcel Duchamp in the Guggenheim Gallery. Deren’s camera-magic shows itself in the raw, and leaves plenty of space for the viewer to pick up the pieces she did not.
BOOK OF DAYS is Meredith Monk’s finished film-vision. As plague looms over medieval Europe, a young Jewish girl grapples with visions of an unknown future and looks to her elders for answers: a grandfather, a theatre troupe, a madwoman, and a whole village. With some of Monk’s best acapella compositions, the film floats along a score in reverence of life and the curious characters that inhabit it. A pleasantly accessible arthouse piece; BOOK OF DAYS has something for the cinema fan, the artist, the singer, the historian, the mystic, and anyone who wants to see the future.
THE WITCH’S CRADLE is Maya Deren’s unfinished seance; hands and body parts dance around surrealist objects constructed by Marcel Duchamp in the Guggenheim Gallery. Deren’s camera-magic shows itself in the raw, and leaves plenty of space for the viewer to pick up the pieces she did not.
BOOK OF DAYS is Meredith Monk’s finished film-vision. As plague looms over medieval Europe, a young Jewish girl grapples with visions of an unknown future and looks to her elders for answers: a grandfather, a theatre troupe, a madwoman, and a whole village. With some of Monk’s best acapella compositions, the film floats along a score in reverence of life and the curious characters that inhabit it. A pleasantly accessible arthouse piece; BOOK OF DAYS has something for the cinema fan, the artist, the singer, the historian, the mystic, and anyone who wants to see the future.
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Star and Shadow Cinema, 210 Warwick Street,Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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