Marie Menken

Marie Menken

Marie Menken was born Marie Menkevicius in New York City on May 25, 1909, the daughter of Catholic Lithuanian immigrants. She grew up in Brooklyn with a brother and a sister, in a home used to frequent financial difficulties. Both she and her sister Adele later changed their surname to Menken. Marie Menken and Willard Maas had got married in 1937, moving into a Brooklyn penthouse at 62 Montague Street which they would inhabit until their deaths. She died on December 29, 1970. Four days after her death, on January 2, 1971, Willard Maas died.

  • Title: Marie Menken
  • Popularity: 0.339
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1909-05-25
  • Place of Birth: New York, New York
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  • Also Known As: Marie Maas
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Marie Menken Movies

  • 1958
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    Narcissus

    Narcissus

    1 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Image in the Snow

    Image in the Snow

    5 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Bitch

    Bitch

    6 1965 HD

    “Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in 1965, made Bitch, his real-life parody...

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  • 1943
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    The Geography of the Body

    The Geography of the Body

    5.4 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    The Life of Juanita Castro

    The Life of Juanita Castro

    6.6 1965 HD

    A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family.

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  • 2006
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    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

    5.4 2006 HD

    A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

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  • 1965
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    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    8 1965 HD

    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,...

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  • 1965
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    Prison

    Prison

    1 1965 HD

    Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center.

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  • 1966
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    Chelsea Girls

    Chelsea Girls

    5.7 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.4 2013 HD

    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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  • 1963
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    Notebook

    Notebook

    5.4 1963 HD

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  • 1966
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    Lights

    Lights

    5.6 1966 HD

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  • 1964
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    Go! Go! Go!

    Go! Go! Go!

    6.1 1964 HD

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  • 1957
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    Glimpse of the Garden

    Glimpse of the Garden

    5.5 1957 HD

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  • 1961
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    Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

    Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

    5.7 1961 HD

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  • 1965
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    Andy Warhol

    Andy Warhol

    4.8 1965 HD

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  • 1945
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    Visual Variations on Noguchi

    Visual Variations on Noguchi

    6.2 1945 HD

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  • 1961
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    Eye Music in Red Major

    Eye Music in Red Major

    5.4 1961 HD

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  • 1943
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    The Geography of the Body

    The Geography of the Body

    5.4 1943 HD

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  • 1957
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    Hurry, Hurry!

    Hurry, Hurry!

    6.4 1957 HD

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  • 1959
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    Dwightiana

    Dwightiana

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1964
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    Wrestling

    Wrestling

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Wrestling

    Wrestling

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1961
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    Mood Mondrian

    Mood Mondrian

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    Bagatelle for Willard Maas

    Bagatelle for Willard Maas

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    Drips in Strips

    Drips in Strips

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1967
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    Watts with Eggs

    Watts with Eggs

    3 1967 HD

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  • 1966
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    Sidewalks

    Sidewalks

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Gravediggers from Guadix

    The Gravediggers from Guadix

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1962
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    Moonplay

    Moonplay

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1964
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    Dionysus

    Dionysus

    6 1964 HD

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  • 1968
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    Excursion

    Excursion

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1967
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    In Search of the Miraculous

    In Search of the Miraculous

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1962
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    Moonplay

    Moonplay

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1961
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    Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

    Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

    5.7 1961 HD

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  • 1965
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    Andy Warhol

    Andy Warhol

    4.8 1965 HD

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  • 1952
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    Image in the Snow

    Image in the Snow

    5 1952 HD

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