Movies:

  • 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
  • 1987
    Turtle Dreams

    Turtle Dreams (1987)

    Turtle Dreams

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    Film by Robert Withers and Meredith Monk....

    Turtle Dreams
  • 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
  • 2018
    Hand Mandala

    Hand Mandala (2018)

    Hand Mandala

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

    Hand Mandala
  • 1967
    Children

    Children (1967)

    Children

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

    Children
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1994
    Faces

    Faces (1994)

    Faces

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    Various faces are shown in close up....

    Faces
  • 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
  • 1982
    Paris

    Paris (1982)

    Paris

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

    Paris
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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