Movies: Meredith Monk

A filming of Meredith Monk and Ping Chong's 1973 experimental theatre piece....

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham....

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....

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

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. ...

Film by Robert Withers and Meredith Monk....

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 ...

Hands move in front of various surfaces....

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

Not to be confused with her longer film from 1981, this is an earlier film about Ellis Island made by Meredith Monk....

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

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

Various faces are shown in close up....

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

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

A beguiling film from Meredith Monk, shot at Ann Hamilton's Tower, Geyserville, CA. Likely filmed a decade previously....