Meredith Monk Movies

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

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

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

Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director, choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater, films and installations. She has been...

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

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...

Early 16mm film by Meredith Monk also presented as an installation piece to play continuously forward and backward for an unrestricted time period.

Various faces are shown in close up.

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

Hands move in front of various surfaces.

Five sets of hands form an ever-changing mandala.

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,...

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

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

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

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