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ELLIS ISLAND & BOOK OF DAYS (DVD) |
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| Includes ELLIS ISLAND (1981, 28 min., Black & White and Color, Sound) and BOOK OF DAYS (1988, 75 min., Black & White and Color, Sound) as well as an INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER MEREDITH MONK (2006, 60 min., with John Killacky). | ||
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24 HOURS OF FACES Part I and II |
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| Color, Silent,
3/4" and 1/2" videotape. Directed by Meredith Monk. Camera by Nick Blair. Edited at Morty's, New York City with Bruce Ashkinos. Part I was used in the Shrine Installation of VOLCANO SONGS and ran as a continous loop. Part II was used in the live performance. |
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BOOK OF DAYS |
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| Black and
White and Color, Sound(Stereo/Dolby), 74:21 Minutes (35mm-1:33/video), 1" 3/4"
and 1/2"videotape. 55:36 minutes (Video/Television version), 1" 3/4" and 1/2"
videotape. Directed by Meredith Monk. Director of Photography Jerry Pantzer; Art Direction and Costume Design by Yoshio Yabara; Music by Meredith Monk; Edited by Girish Bhargava. BOOK OF DAYS is a production of Tatge/Lasseur Productions, Inc., The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc., La Sept, in Association with Alive From Off Center. BOOK OF DAYS is a film about time, drawing parallels between the Middle Ages, a time of war, plague and fear of the Apocalypse, with our modern times of racial and religious conflict, AIDs, and the fear of nuclear annihilation. |
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TURTLE DREAMS (WALTZ) | |
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27 Minutes, 1", 3/4" and 1/2" videotape. Conceived by Meredith Monk. Performed by Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble. Directed by Ping Chong. Music by Meredith Monk. Co-Produced by WGBH-Boston. TURTLE DREAMS (WALTZ) is a music piece with movement for 4 voices and 2 organs. The piece was first performed in 1981, and received the Grand Prize - Performance Video at the first Festival of Video Culture/Canada in Toronto, 1983. |
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| MERMAID ADVENTURES | ||
| Color, Silent,
10 Minutes, 16MM. Directed by Meredith Monk. Camera by David Gearey. This film was projected in the Pre-set section of the stage production TURTLE DREAMS (Cabaret). |
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PARIS | |
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26 Minutes, 1", 3/4" and 1/2" videotape. Conceived and performed by Meredith Monk and Ping Chong. Produced and Directed by Mark Lowry and Kathryn Escher; made in cooperation with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and KTCA-TV. Music by Meredith Monk. PARIS was first performed in 1972, the first part of THE TRAVELOGUE SERIES, a musical theater piece on journeys imaginary and real, to places with a unique and formative role in history and our consciousness. PARIS is an evocation of place; the ambiance, inhabitants, and mood of a location. KTCA-TV received the Corporation for Public Broadcasting First Place for Performance Programming for PARIS. The video received an Honorable Mention in the 26th Annual American Film Festival sponsored by the Educational Film Library Association, and was also selected for screening at the International Public Television conference in Belgium. |
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ELLIS ISLAND |
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White and Color, Sound, 28 Minutes, 35MM, 1", 3/4" and 1/2" videotape. Directed by Meredith Monk, Produced and Co-directed by Bob Rosen, Camera by Jerry Pantzer. Music by Meredith Monk. A film about the experience of immigrants entering America at the turn of the century, ELLIS ISLAND was awarded the CINE Golden Eagle, special Jury Prize from the Atlanta and San Francisco Film and Video Festivals. |
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16 MILLIMETER EARRINGS | |
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25 Minutes, 16MM. Produced, directed and photographed by Robert Withers. Conceived and performed by Meredith Monk; originally performed in 1966. The film received a Merit Award at The Dance Film Festival in New York City, 1980. |
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ELLIS ISLAND | |
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White, Silent, 7 Minutes, 16MM. Directed by Meredith Monk, Associate Director Bob Rosen, Camera by Jerry Pantzer. Designed to be screened during a performance of RECENT RUINS, the film features members of The House Company, and was filmed on location on Ellis Island. |
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QUARRY | |
| Color, Sound,
86 Minutes, 16MM. Produced by Amram Nowak Associates. A documentary record of the opera, performed by The House Company. |
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HUMBOLDT'S CURRENT | |
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White, Silent, 5 Minutes, S-8 and 16MM. Directed by Meredith Monk, Camera by Meredith Monk, Edited by Meredith Monk and Tony Janetti. A 1910 home movie of Humboldt and his wife on the beach in Asbury Park. Shown in the Obie Award winning piece of the same title by Ping Chong. |
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QUARRY |
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White, Silent, 5.3 Minutes, 16MM. Directed by Meredith Monk, Camera and Editing by David Gearey. This film was designed to be projected in the performing space during presentation of Meredith Monk's opera QUARRY, which won an Obie Award in 1976. |
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MOUNTAIN | |
| Color, Silent,
10 Minutes, 16MM. Directed by Meredith Monk. Camera by Robin Lloyd. |
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BALLBEARING | |
| Color, Silent, 6.5 and 13 minutes, 16MM. Directed by Meredith Monk; Camera by Meredith Monk and George Landow. This film was designed as an installation piece, to play continuously forward and backward for an unrestricted time period. | ||
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CHILDREN | |
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White, Silent, 9 Minutes, 16MM. Directed by Meredith Monk. Camera by Phil Niblock. |
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