Monk’s meditation on WWII and recurring cycles of intolerance, fascism, and cruelty in history originated in 1976 as a live stage work utilizing elements of music, images, movement, dialogue, film, sound, and light. This film version, shot on 16mm in the Lepercq Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1977, was created in partnership with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of their initiative to document ground-breaking live performance for future restaging. QUARRY centers on a sick American child (played by Monk herself) whose world darkens as her illness progresses, this darkening including the rise of a dictator. A unique document of this innovative, boundary-blurring production, and a work of art on its own terms, replete with a film-within-a-film directed by Monk in 1975.
| Directing | Amram Nowak | Director |
| Directing | Meredith Monk | Director |
| Writing | Meredith Monk | Writer |
| Sound | Meredith Monk | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Meredith Monk | Choreographer |
| Production | Kirstin Kapustik | Executive Producer |
| Production | Peter Sciscioli | Producer |
| Crew | David Lerner | Cinematography |
| Crew | Jerry Pantzer | Cinematography |
| Editing | Adam Bernardi | Editor |
| Editing | Bob Rosen | Editor |
| Art | Ping Chong | Production Design |
| Art | Jean-Claude Ribes | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Steve Clorfeine | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lanny Harrison | Costume Design |
| Lighting | Beverly Emmons | Lighting Design |