Meredith Monk Movies

The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with...

Constructed around a found soundtrack in which a strict female voice delivers a test of perception and comprehension, Institutional Quality’s...

This film is a rich and haunting reinvention of medieval life that never loses its contemporary perspective. When the plague afflicts a village, this...

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

Hands move in front of various surfaces.

Five sets of hands form an ever-changing mandala.

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.

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 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,...

Film by Robert Withers and Meredith Monk.

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

‘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...

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally...

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway