Gail Turner
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Quarry
1978-08-08
Quarry
Overview: Monk’s meditation on WWII and recurring cycles of intolerance, fascism, and cruelty in history originated in 1976 as a live stage work utilizing elements of music, images, movement, dialogue, film, sound, and light. This film version, shot on 16mm in the Lepercq Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1977, was created in partnership with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of their initiative to document ground-breaking live performance for future restaging. QUARRY centers on a sick American child (played by Monk herself) whose world darkens as her illness progresses, this darkening including the rise of a dictator. A unique document of this innovative, boundary-blurring production, and a work of art on its own terms, replete with a film-within-a-film directed by Monk in 1975.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-08
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Fist of Fear, Touch of Death
1980-09-01
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death
Overview: A television reporter interviews fighters and promoters about Bruce Lee in preparation for a tournament to claim the title of “Successor to the Bruce Lee legacy”. Footage from Bruce Lee's films and interviews is repurposed in pseudo-documentary style.
Genres: Action Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Ellis Island
1981-03-21
Ellis Island
Overview: Meredith Monk's "Ellis Island" is a haunting, reflective piece on Ellis Island and the immigrants who passed through there.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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Paris
1982-06-01
Paris
Overview: A filming of Meredith Monk and Ping Chong's 1973 experimental theatre piece.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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