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Monk in Pieces
Meredith Monk—composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist—is one of the great artistic pioneers of our time, yet her profound cultural influence has remained largely unrecognized. With Monk's music at its heart and interviews with Björk and David Byrne, “Monk in Pieces” is a mosaic that reflects the structure of Monk's own work and illuminates her highly original vocabulary of sounds and images.
As a female artist in the male-dominated downtown art scene of New York in the 1960s and 70s, Monk had to fight for recognition. The first reviews in the New York Times were vicious and sexist: “A disgrace to the name of dancing,” wrote Clive Barnes, and “so earnestly strange in a talented little-girl way,” wrote John Rockwell. But as her celebrated contemporary Philip Glass says, “she was the one among us all with a unique talent, and she still is.”
In the final chapters of the film, Monk confronts mortality. We see her entrusting her masterpiece ATLAS to director Yuval Sharon and singer Joanna Lynn-Jacobs for a new production at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. For 60 years, Monk directed and performed in all her musical theater works; now she must learn to let go. What will happen to this unique work when she is no longer here?