
Monk in Pieces
Monk in Pieces
USA / Germany / France / 2025 / 94′ / English / Chinese & English Subtitles
A documentary that honors the underrecognized avant-garde artist’s prolific output and celebrates her singular vision. Meredith Monk – composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist – is one of the great artistic pioneers of our time. The film serves as a mosaic of her original and influential work, featuring her unique sound and imagery, and covering interviews with artists like Björk and David Byrne.It explores her six-decade career, her struggle for recognition in a male-dominated art scene, and her current challenge of entrusting her masterpieces to a new generation of artists. Monk has been directing and performing in all of her music theater works, now, in the midst of her latest creation, Indra’s Net, embracing her 80s that fostered her profound awareness of mortality as an inevitable part of life, she must learn to let go and consider what will happen to her works after she is gone?



Berlin International Film Festival (2025)