Movies: Miriam Arsham

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s....

Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a stream-of-consciousness narration: Jocasta, as she is about to kill herself, remembering what has happened to her. I...