Movies: Meredith Monk

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

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

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally performed in 1966, Judson Memorial Church, New York....

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

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

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

Hands move in front of various surfaces....

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

‘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...

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

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....

Various faces are shown in close up....

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...

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. ...

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...

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