Movies: Meredith Monk

Film by Robert Withers and Meredith Monk....

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. ...

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

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...

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

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....

Hands move in front of various surfaces....

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

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

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

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...

‘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...