Quarry
1978, English. Directed by Amram Nowak & Meredith Monk.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Amram NowakDirector
- Meredith MonkDirector
- Meredith MonkChild
- Ping ChongThe Dictator
- Steve ClorfeineDictator's Aide
- Tone BlevinsOld Testament woman / Dictator
- Daniel Ira SverdlikOld Testament man / Dictator
- Lanny HarrisonRadio Singer / Announcer / Woman in a flowered dress / Dictator
- Monica MoseleyWoman at a table / Dictator
- Pablo VelaMan with grey hair / Dictator
- Lee NagrinWoman with Gray Hair
- Mary ShultzWoman at Table
- Gail TurnerWoman at a table
- Anne GentryVisitor at the table
Details
- Released
- 8 August 1978
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Meredith Monk
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Quarry runs 82 minutes (1h 22m).
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Quarry isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 8 August 1978. (Checked 30 October 2026.)
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Who directed Quarry?
Quarry (1978) was directed by Amram Nowak and Meredith Monk and stars Meredith Monk, Ping Chong, Steve Clorfeine.