Quarry
movie
Released August 08, 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.
Cast
Meredith Monk
as
Child
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Ping Chong
as
The Dictator
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Steve Clorfeine
as
Dictator's Aide
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Tone Blevins
as
Old Testament woman / Dictator
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Daniel Ira Sverdlik
as
Old Testament man / Dictator
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Lanny Harrison
as
Radio Singer / Announcer / Woman in a flowered dress / Dictator
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Monica Moseley
as
Woman at a table / Dictator
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Pablo Vela
as
Man with grey hair / Dictator
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Lee Nagrin
as
Woman with Gray Hair
Mary Shultz
as
Woman at Table
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Gail Turner
as
Woman at a table
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Anne Gentry
as
Visitor at the table
Crew
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Peter Sciscioli
as
Producer
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David Lerner
as
Cinematography
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Lanny Harrison
as
Costume Design
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Ping Chong
as
Production Design
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Jerry Pantzer
as
Cinematography
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Steve Clorfeine
as
Costume Design
Meredith Monk
as
Writer
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Jean-Claude Ribes
as
Production Design
Meredith Monk
as
Choreographer
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Adam Bernardi
as
Editor
Meredith Monk
as
Original Music Composer
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Kirstin Kapustik
as
Executive Producer