Movies: Meredith Monk

  • 2018
    Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

    Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018)

    Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

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    In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture to...

    Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
  • 2004
    Notre Musique

    Notre Musique (2004)

    Notre Musique

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    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 itself....

    Notre Musique
  • 1993
    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros (1993)

    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

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    The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk and Pauline Oliveros are all pioneers in American music, each co...

    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
  • 2025
    Monk in Pieces

    Monk in Pieces (2025)

    Monk in Pieces

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    Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her time. In her seventh decade of creativity, she ponders how her unique work can continue without her....

    Monk in Pieces
  • 2023
    Evolver

    Evolver (2023)

    Evolver

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    Evolver
  • 1987
    Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat (1987)

    Uncle Meat

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

    Uncle Meat
  • 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
  • 1989
    Book of Days

    Book of Days (1989)

    Book of Days

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    This film is a rich and haunting reinvention of medieval life that never loses its contemporary perspective. When the plague afflicts a village, this world seems to go up in an apocalypse of hatred and disease that presages our own century....

    Book of Days
  • 1980
    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers (1980)

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

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    Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of dance and the evolution of their own work. Filmed at rehearsals, performances, and during interviews, th...

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
  • 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
  • 1979
    Ellis Island

    Ellis Island (1979)

    Ellis Island

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

    Ellis Island
  • 2019
    Songs of Ascension

    Songs of Ascension (2019)

    Songs of Ascension

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

    Songs of Ascension
  • 2001
    Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

    Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance (2001)

    Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

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

    Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
  • 1983
    Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

    Four American Composers: Meredith Monk (1983)

    Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

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    A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway...

    Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
  • 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
  • 2018
    Hand Mandala

    Hand Mandala (2018)

    Hand Mandala

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

    Hand Mandala
  • 1981
    Ellis Island

    Ellis Island (1981)

    Ellis Island

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

    Ellis Island
  • 1994
    Meredith Monk

    Meredith Monk (1994)

    Meredith Monk

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    Profile of choreographer, composer and performer Meredith Monk, recorded on location in her home base, New York City. Monk discusses some ideas underlying her work: her attraction to the eloquence of the human voice, and the direct communication made...

    Meredith Monk
  • 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
  • 1979
    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)

    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

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    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. Associated through mutual friendships, these cultural dissidents looked for new ways and means to exp...

    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds