{"id":963,"date":"2019-06-11T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/?post_type=work&#038;p=963"},"modified":"2024-07-09T19:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:25:59","slug":"book-of-days-1985","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/current-repertory\/book-of-days-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of Days (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-964\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2019\/06\/BD-2-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2019\/06\/BD-2-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2019\/06\/BD-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2019\/06\/BD-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2019\/06\/BD-2.jpg 1858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">Photo by Dominique Lasseur<\/h6>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Book of Days<\/strong> (1988)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Book of Days<\/em> is a film about time, originally drawing parallels between the Middle Ages, a time of war, plague and fear of the Apocalypse, with modern times of racial and religious conflict, the AIDS epidemic, and fear of nuclear annihilation. In light of the current pandemic, the cyclical nature of such phenomena has made itself known once more. While the film provides no answers, it nevertheless is a tribute to vision and the imagination, and a poetic incantation of that which connects us. <em>Book of Days<\/em> previously aired on PBS, was shown at the New York Film Festival and was selected for the Whitney Biennial.<br><br><strong><em>Book of Days<\/em><\/strong> (1988, 85 minutes)<br>Conceived and Directed by <strong>Meredith Monk<\/strong><br>Cinematography by <strong>Jerry Pantzer<\/strong><br>Art Direction and Costume Design by <strong>Yoshio Yabara<\/strong><br>Music by <strong>Meredith Monk<\/strong><br>Produced by <strong>Catherine Tatge<\/strong> and <strong>Dominique Lasseur<\/strong><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/bookofdays\">CLICK HERE to watch <em>Book of Days<\/em><\/a><br><br>For screenings, contact <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:sciscioli@meredithmonk.org\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:sciscioli@meredithmonk.org\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Sciscioli,\u00a0<em>Communications\/Education Consultant<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":964,"menu_order":20,"template":"","acf":{"is_current_repertory_work":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/work"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}