Directed by Meredith Monk
Cinematography by Jerry Pantzer
Art Direction and Costume Design by Yoshio Yabara
Music by Meredith Monk
Edited by Girish Bhargava
Meredith Monk has said that Book of Days is a film about time...about the sadness and joy of human nature. The film takes place primarily in the Middle Ages, but the characters and their concerns are deeply familiar.
Monk draws parallels between this age of war, plague and fear of the apocalypse, with our modern times of racial and religious conflict, AIDS, and the fear of nuclear annihilation. Book of Days has a mythic quality, a sense of displacement; it encourages the viewer to ponder the ultimate fragility of the human experience.
A production of Tatge/Lasseur Productions Inc., The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc., La Sept, in Association with Alive From Off Center.