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Quarry (1978)
Directed by Amram Nowak, Meredith Monk
Music, Drama · 1h 22m
Monk’s meditation on WWII and recurring cycles of intolerance, fascism, and cruelty in history originated in 1976 as a live stage work utilizing elements of music, images, movement, dialogue, film, sound, and light. This film version, shot on 16mm in the Lepercq Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1977, was created in partnership with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of their initiative to document ground-breaking live performance for future restaging. QUARRY centers on a sick American child (played by Monk herself) whose world darkens as her illness progresses, this darkening including the rise of a dictator. A unique document of this innovative, boundary-blurring production, and a work of art on its own terms, replete with a film-within-a-film directed by Monk in 1975.
Cast
Meredith Monk
Child
Ping Chong
The Dictator
Mary Shultz
Woman at Table
Crew
- Director
- Amram Nowak, Meredith Monk
- Writer
- Meredith Monk
- Original Music Composer
- Meredith Monk
- Editor
- Adam Bernardi, Bob Rosen
- Producer
- Peter Sciscioli
Details
- Release date
- 1978-08-08
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- New York Public Library of Performing Arts, The House Foundation for the Arts