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Quarry (1977)

Genre : Music, Drama

Runtime : 1H 22M

Director : Meredith Monk, Amram Nowak

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk
Child
Ping Chong
Ping Chong
The Dictator
Steve Clorfeine
Steve Clorfeine
Dictator's Aide
Tone Blevins
Tone Blevins
Old Testament woman / Dictator
Daniel Ira Sverdlik
Daniel Ira Sverdlik
Old Testament man / Dictator
Lanny Harrison
Lanny Harrison
Radio Singer / Announcer / Woman in a flowered dress / Dictator
Monica Moseley
Monica Moseley
Woman at a table / Dictator
Pablo Vela
Pablo Vela
Man with grey hair / Dictator
Lee Nagrin
Lee Nagrin
Woman with Gray Hair
Mary Shultz
Mary Shultz
Woman at Table
Gail Turner
Gail Turner
Woman at a table
Anne Gentry
Anne Gentry
Visitor at the table
Coco Pekelis
Coco Pekelis
Maid
Andrea Goodman
Andrea Goodman
Organist
Steve Lockwood
Steve Lockwood
Organist

Crews

Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk
Director
Amram Nowak
Amram Nowak
Director
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk
Writer
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk
Original Music Composer
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk
Choreographer
Kirstin Kapustik
Kirstin Kapustik
Executive Producer
Peter Sciscioli
Peter Sciscioli
Producer
David Lerner
David Lerner
Cinematography
Jerry Pantzer
Jerry Pantzer
Cinematography
Adam Bernardi
Adam Bernardi
Editor
Bob Rosen
Bob Rosen
Editor
Ping Chong
Ping Chong
Production Design
Jean-Claude Ribes
Jean-Claude Ribes
Production Design
Steve Clorfeine
Steve Clorfeine
Costume Design
Lanny Harrison
Lanny Harrison
Costume Design
Beverly Emmons
Beverly Emmons
Lighting Design

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