Filminfo & Termine
Quarry: An Opera In 3 Movements
USA 1977, Laufzeit: 88 Min.
Regie: A. Nowak, M. Monk
Kurzinfo: Composer, singer, director/choreographer, and filmmaker Meredith Monk created QUARRY: AN OPERA IN 3 MOVEMENTS as a live stage work between 1975-76 – with her company, The House – as a mosaic of music, images, movement, dialogue, film, sound, and light. A meditation on WWII and recurring cycles of intolerance, fascism, and cruelty in history, QUARRY centers on a sick American child (played by Monk herself) whose world darkens as her illness progresses. This film version, shot in the Lepercq Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1977, was directed by Amram Nowak and supervised by Monk, and includes her 1975 short silent film of the same name. Considered a masterwork of the 20th century, the piece is as prescient today as it was 40 years ago. It is at once a myth, a documentary, and a memorial. Preservation of this film was made possible, in part, by grants from the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television, and the National Film Preservation Fund, as well as numerous individuals. (filmwerkstatt)
