FILMS BY MEREDITH MONK: ELLIS ISLAND AND BOOK OF DAYS
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Special film session, as a parallel programme to the concert by Meredith Monk and John Hollenbeck. This film session will include the screenings of Meredith Monk's "Ellis Island" (1981) and "Book of Days".
ELLIS ISLAND
Meredith Monk | USA | 1981 | 28'
“An intensely memorable film evocation of America’s immigrants; set in the crumbling halls of contemporary Ellis Island...spare, sober, and exquisite, it recalls the formality and beauty of vintage photos.” (Village Voice) Ellis Island aired on PBS and was awarded the CINE Golden Eagle, special Jury Prize from the Atlanta and San Francisco Film and Video Festivals.
BOOK OF DAYS
Meredith Monk | USA | 1985 | 85'
Book of Days is a film about time, originally drawing parallels between the Middle Ages, a time of war, plague and fear of the Apocalypse, with modern times of racial and religious conflict, the AIDS epidemic, and fear of nuclear annihilation. In light of the ongoing pandemic, the cyclical nature of such phenomenon has made itself known once more. While the film provides no answers, it nevertheless is a tribute to vision and the imagination, and a poetic incantation of that which connects us. Book of Days previously aired on PBS, was shown at the New York Film Festival and was selected for the Whitney Biennial.