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.
as Child
as The Dictator
as Dictator's Aide
as Old Testament woman / Dictator
as Old Testament man / Dictator
as Radio Singer / Announcer / Woman in a flowered dress / Dictator
as Woman at a table / Dictator
as Man with grey hair / Dictator
as Woman with Gray Hair
as Woman at Table
as Woman at a table
as Visitor at the table
as Maid
as Organist
as Organist
