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Quarry

🎞️ Movie 88 min US
โ˜… 8.8 /10 1978

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

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Meredith Monk
Child
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Ping Chong
The Dictator
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Steve Clorfeine
Dictator's Aide
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Tone Blevins
Old Testament woman
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Tone Blevins
Dictator
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Daniel Ira Sverdlik
Old Testament man
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Daniel Ira Sverdlik
Dictator
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Lanny Harrison
Radio Singer
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Lanny Harrison
Announcer
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Lanny Harrison
Woman in a flowered dress
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Monica Moseley
Woman at a table
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Monica Moseley
Dictator
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Pablo Vela
Man with grey hair
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Pablo Vela
Dictator
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Lee Nagrin
Woman with Gray Hair
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Mary Shultz
Woman at Table
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Meredith Monk
Composer
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David Lerner
Cinematographer
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Jerry Pantzer
Cinematographer