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.