Monk in Pieces

Date:: 10 Jun 2025, 19:30–20:35

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Age restrictions: 18+

The avant-garde music icon shares her exuberant visionary energy with cinema. Screening as part of Beat Film Festival 2025.

2025, Billy Shebar, David C. Roberts

United States–Germany–France
94 minutes, English with Russian subtitles

Documentary

Meredith Monk’s musical career spans over six decades, but she continues to stump critics. What do you call music that combines minimalism with expressiveness and the primitive with the futuristic? At the very least brilliant, answer stars like Björk and David Byrne in the film.

Shot form Monk in Pieces, 2025

As a lively audiovisual tapestry, Monk in Pieces is hard to fault

— Stephen Dalton, The Film Verdict

The directors abandon the genre of the chronologically constructed portrait. Monk in Pieces is made up precisely of details, scraps of monologues and diaries. It turns out to be a dizzying kaleidoscope, in the spirit of its heroine using the most unexpected techniques.

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