Known For
Directing
Born
May 25, 1909
Died
Dec 29, 1970
Place of Birth
New York, New York
Credits
34 titles
Marie Menken
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Notes on Marie Menken
Self (archive footage)
Excursion
Director
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
In Search of the Miraculous
Camera Operator
Watts with Eggs
Director
Chelsea Girls
Mother
Lights
Director
Sidewalks
Director
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Self
Andy Warhol
Director
The Life of Juanita Castro
Juanita Castro
Prison
Bitch
Wrestling
Writer
Dionysus
Cinematography
Lita's Party
Director
Go! Go! Go!
Director
Notebook
Director
Moonplay
Director
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Director
Bagatelle for Willard Maas
Director
Mood Mondrian
Director
Drips in Strips
Director
Eye Music in Red Major
Director
Dwightiana
Director
The Gravediggers from Guadix
Director
Hurry, Hurry!
Director
Glimpse of the Garden
Director
Narcissus
Sibyl
Zenscapes
Director
Image in the Snow
Mother
Visual Variations on Noguchi
Director
The Geography of the Body
Body
For Leo Castelli
Director