Meredith Monk Movies

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full...

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war...

This is a documentary about an unfinished movie. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention try to film the sci-fi epic "Uncle Meat."

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City....

Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her time. In her seventh decade of...

The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...

Meredith Monk's "Ellis Island" is a haunting, reflective piece on Ellis Island and the immigrants who passed through there.

Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of...

Turtle Dreams, produced for WGBH-TV, originally aired September 2, 1983. Shot by Ping Chong. Composed by Meredith Monk, performed by her and her...

Profile of choreographer, composer and performer Meredith Monk, recorded on location in her home base, New York City. Monk discusses some ideas...

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally...

Monk’s meditation on WWII and recurring cycles of intolerance, fascism, and cruelty in history originated in 1976 as a live stage work...

With minimal tools and the limitation of a single image of a woman’s head a set of pearls activates a woman’s inner drive expressing...

Children play. First shown normally, then shown in reverse.

This film is a rich and haunting reinvention of medieval life that never loses its contemporary perspective. When the plague afflicts a village, this...

‘Mark Berger’s years of work as a representational painting can be found here, in this film portrait. Mark Berger was an actor in the...

The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with...

Constructed around a found soundtrack in which a strict female voice delivers a test of perception and comprehension, Institutional Quality’s...