Quarry (1978)

Monks 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 groundbreaking 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 boundaryblurring production and a work of art on its own terms replete with a filmwithinafilm directed by Monk in 1975