Marie Menken Movies
- 1958
Narcissus
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A film poem, a re-telling of the Greek myth in modern terms. In the traditional pool the water has become muddy and Narcissus finds that mirrors are...
- 1967
Watts with Eggs
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"By 1967, Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece, Watts with EGGS, in which she...
- 1965
Prison
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Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center.
- 1964
Dionysus
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In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...
- 1967
In Search of the Miraculous
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In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and...
- 1965
Mood Mondrian
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A film of a painting of a sound. Piet Mondrian's 'Broadway Boogie-Woogie' is translated into visual boogie rhythm.
- 1952
Image in the Snow
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A young male protagonist dreams of a muscleman hero, a black dancer, and a princess who gives him a magic urn. When he wakes he rejects his mother...
- 1968
Excursion
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A boat trip with friends round Manhattan, shot in single-frame mode
- 1967
Moonplay
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An expansion upon an idea put forward in Marie Menken's film Notebook; single-frame footage of the moon shot on various nights, blinking and darting...
- 1961
Drips in Strips
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"Spattered paint responding to gravity, forming its own patterns and combinations of color." -- M.M.
- 1958
The Gravediggers from Guadix
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A film by Marie Menken.