Movie Description
Quarry
(1978)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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Meredith Monk,Amram Nowak
- Producer : Peter Sciscioli
- Writer : Meredith Monk
- Editor : Adam Bernardi,Bob Rosen
- Cast : Meredith Monk,Ping Chong,Steve Clorfeine,Tone Blevins,Daniel Ira Sverdlik,Lanny Harrison,Monica Moseley,Pablo Vela,Lee Nagrin,Mary Shultz,Gail Turner,Anne Gentry,Coco Pekelis,Andrea Goodman,Steve Lockwood
Cast
Child
The Dictator
Dictator's Aide
Old Testament woman / Dictator
Old Testament man / Dictator
Radio Singer / Announcer / Woman in a flowered dress / Dictator
Woman at a table / Dictator
Man with grey hair / Dictator
Woman with Gray Hair
Woman at Table
Woman at a table
Visitor at the table
Maid
Organist
Organist
Posters
Facts
Original TitleQuarry
Status Released
Release Information
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1978-08-08
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 22m
Production CompaniesNew York Public Library of Performing Arts,The House Foundation for the Arts
Genres
- Music
- Drama
