Marie Menken Movies
- 1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.41968HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 1966
Chelsea Girls
Chelsea Girls5.71966HD
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be...
- 1945
Visual Variations on Noguchi
Visual Variations on Noguchi6.21945HD
A voice occasionally says a word or two: "on the sidewalk" or "lithium" or a woman's name. A hand-held camera frames parts of sculptures, or moves...
- 1961
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger5.71961HD
Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in...
- 1966
Lights
Lights5.61966HD
Shot over a period of three years. Marie Menken photographed New York window displays during the Christmas holiday. In order to avoid foot and street...
- 1965
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol4.81965HD
Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, Menken...
- 1957
Hurry, Hurry!
Hurry, Hurry!6.41957HD
In this strange little film, Marie Menken photographs billowy flames superimposed over microscopic medical footage of writhing spermatozoa.
- 1943
The Geography of the Body
The Geography of the Body5.3531943HD
A quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," precedes views of a man and a woman's bodies, often in extreme...
- 1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Andy Warhol Screen Tests81965HD
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light,...
- 1961
Notebook
Notebook5.41961HD
A short, diaristic film; A series of impressions, animations and playful vignettes in color and B&W. Early/ Outtake footage of Menken's Lights can be...
- 1965
Bitch
Bitch61965HD
“Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in 1965, made Bitch, his real-life parody...
- 1964
Wrestling
Wrestling01964HD
A wrestling match shown on television, shot on film-- A tv 'concrete'.
- 1957
Glimpse of the Garden
Glimpse of the Garden5.51957HD
Experimental film showing film clips of a garden, with birds chirping for the soundtrack.
- 1961
Bagatelle for Willard Maas
Bagatelle for Willard Maas01961HD
"This is a new version of the now famous film made for her husband, the poet and film-maker. Returning from the Brussels fair, she shot this at...
- 1965
The Life of Juanita Castro
The Life of Juanita Castro6.61965HD
A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family.
- 1964
Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go!6.11964HD
Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.
- 1961
Eye Music in Red Major
Eye Music in Red Major5.41961HD
"A study in light based on persistence of vision and enhancement from eye fatigue." -- M.M.
- 1966
Sidewalks
Sidewalks01966HD
Photography: Willard Maas and John Hawkins. "Looking down instead of around, while walking, finding the magic patterns in the pavements of a...
- 1959
Dwightiana
Dwightiana01959HD
Menken's 16mm, stop-motion tribute to the art of Dwight Ripley was filmed in 1959 in his apartment at 416 East Fifty-eighth Street in New York. She...
- 2006
Notes on Marie Menken
Notes on Marie Menken5.42006HD
A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.