Marie Menken
Birth:
May 25, 1909 (New York City, New York)
Death:
Dec. 29, 1970 (Brooklyn)
Official Website:
None
Major Works:
Excursion (1968)
Watts With Eggs (1967)
Lights (1966)
Sidewalks (1966)
Andy Warhol (1965)
Go! Go! Go! (1964)
Wrestling (1964)
Drips in Strips (1963)
Notebook (1962)
Moonplay (1962)
Mood Mondrian (1962)
Bagatelle for Willard Maas (1961)
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1961)
Eye Music in Red Major (1961)
The Gravediggers from Guadix (1960)
Faucet (1960– ) (unfinished)
Dwightiana (1959)
Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
Hurry! Hurry! (1957)
Zenscapes (1957)
Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945)
Years Working:
1945
1957 — 1959
1961 — 1965
Notes:
Married poet and filmmaker Willard Maas in 1931. They had a very contentious marriage whose legendary fights inspired mutual friend Edward Albee to write the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mentor and muse to many male avant-garde filmmakers of the 1960s, such as Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol.
Was also a painter.
Acted in two Andy Warhol films: Chelsea Girls and The Life of Juanita Castro.
Was the subject of a 2007 documentary, Notes On Marie Menken
Other Resources:
IMDB: Partial Filmography
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Films for rental
Wikipedia: Biography
Robert Haller: Partial filmography
Film Books About Marie Menken:
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (pp. 170-171, 172.)
Video:
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