A portrait of Meredith Monk

Mark Berger

Experimental film | Etats-Unis | 16 mm | 1.37 | b&w/color | mono | 1974 | 25' 00"
75 €

Screening Copy: 16 mm

‘Mark Berger’s years of work as a representational painting can be found here, in this film portrait. Mark Berger was an actor in the Meredith Monk company and the House, from 1971 to 1974, and he uses an improvisation technique in this vision of interaction painter/subject, filmmaker/actor, artist/artist. Mark Berger’s camera records and interviews a relationship between himself and Meredith Monk, in the same way that Meredith Monk’s music as soundtrack, is a fundamental and structural aspect of film material editing. The shooting, like the painting of a portrait, was executed in a number of sessions, over a period of several weeks.’ A. Sichel. Translation: Louise Jablonowska

Credits

Director: Mark Berger

Cast

Players: Meredith Monk

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