Emerging in the 1960s and 70s, American artist Joan Jonas works mainly with performance and video art. Inspired by theatre and other forms of story-telling, Volcano Saga is a short film made in 1985, featuring actress Tilda Swinton, that is based on the thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga. It retells a medieval myth about a young woman whose dreams tell the future. This film is set in both Iceland and New York, and was technologically advanced for its time.
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