Movies: Meredith Monk

  • 1968
    Ball Bearing

    Ball Bearing (1968)

    Ball Bearing

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    Early 16mm film by Meredith Monk also presented as an installation piece to play continuously forward and backward for an unrestricted time period....

    Ball Bearing
  • 2009
    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009)

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

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    The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with images of light and movement that take her far from the hospital bed. A a cancer ‘thriver’ rather than ...

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
  • 2009
    Meredith Monk: Inner Voice

    Meredith Monk: Inner Voice (2009)

    Meredith Monk: Inner Voice

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    Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director, choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater, films and installations. She has been proclaimed as a 'magician of the voice' and 'one of America's coolest composers....

    Meredith Monk: Inner Voice
  • 1994
    Faces

    Faces (1994)

    Faces

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    Various faces are shown in close up....

    Faces
  • 1987
    Turtle Dreams

    Turtle Dreams (1987)

    Turtle Dreams

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    Film by Robert Withers and Meredith Monk....

    Turtle Dreams
  • 1974
    A portrait of Meredith Monk

    A portrait of Meredith Monk (1974)

    A portrait of Meredith Monk

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    ‘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 Meredith Monk company and the House, from 1971 to 1974, and he uses an improvisation technique in this vision of int...

    A portrait of Meredith Monk
  • 1988
    Pearls

    Pearls (1988)

    Pearls

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    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 freedom of movement. Animation suggests quickly a series of possible choices. The decision is ultimately hers. An ani...

    Pearls
  • 1969
    Institutional Quality

    Institutional Quality (1969)

    Institutional Quality

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    Constructed around a found soundtrack in which a strict female voice delivers a test of perception and comprehension, Institutional Quality’s sound and image relationship become detached as the filmmakerloses interest in his subject....

    Institutional Quality
  • 1975
    Quarry

    Quarry (1975)

    Quarry

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    Like gnomes, dancers emerge from and hide again behind boulders. Not to be confused with Meredith Monk's 1978 opera of the same name....

    Quarry
  • 2021
    Offering Shrine

    Offering Shrine (2021)

    Offering Shrine

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    A key, a strawberry, diamonds. Drawing on Meredith Monk's Buddhist practice, "Offering Shrine" is a meditation on human objects....

    Offering Shrine
  • 2021
    Rotation

    Rotation (2021)

    Rotation

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    Dancers rotate. Dancing shown from above. Black and white....

    Rotation
  • 2016
    Hand Reflection

    Hand Reflection (2016)

    Hand Reflection

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    Hands move in front of various surfaces....

    Hand Reflection
  • 2013
    Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980

    Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980 (2013)

    Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980

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    A rare and powerful solo performance by one of the most important and original artists in the world. Recorded in 1980 at a studio out on Long Island, Meredith is in full voice, relaxed and creatively inspired by a small audience of Monk cogniscenti. ...

    Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980
  • 1966
    16 Millimeter Earrings

    16 Millimeter Earrings (1966)

    16 Millimeter Earrings

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    Not to be confused with Robert Withers's 1979 "16 Millimeter Earrings" which builds upon this work, Meredith Monk's 1966 "16 Millimeter Earrings" is a black and white film of a woman holding a magnifying glass to each eye and tearing apart several wi...

    16 Millimeter Earrings
  • 2018
    Hand Mandala

    Hand Mandala (2018)

    Hand Mandala

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    Five sets of hands form an ever-changing mandala....

    Hand Mandala
  • 1969
    Trees' Migration

    Trees' Migration (1969)

    Trees' Migration

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    The migration in Autumn, when the clouds carry the forests away......

    Trees' Migration