- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- May 25, 1909
- Place of Birth
- New York, New York
- Died
- December 29, 1970
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.
Filmography
Notes on Marie Menken
movieNotes on Marie Menken
2006 · Self (archive footage)
movieExcursion
1968 · Director
movieDiaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Self
movieIn Search of the Miraculous
1967 · Camera Operator
movieWatts with Eggs
1967 · Director
movieChelsea Girls
1966 · Mother
movieLights
1966 · Director
movieSidewalks
1966 · Director
movieAndy Warhol Screen Tests
1965 · Self
movieAndy Warhol
1965 · Director, Cinematography
movieThe Life of Juanita Castro
1965 · Juanita Castro
movieBitch
1965
moviePrison
1965
movieWrestling
1964 · Director, Writer
movieDionysus
1964 · Cinematography
movieLita's Party
1964 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
movieGo! Go! Go!
1964 · Director
movieNotebook
1963 · Director
movieMoonplay
1962 · Director, Cinematography
movieArabesque for Kenneth Anger
1961 · Director, Cinematography
movieBagatelle for Willard Maas
1961 · Director
movieEye Music in Red Major
1961 · Director
movieMood Mondrian
1961 · Director
movieDrips in Strips
1961 · Director
movieDwightiana
1959 · Director
The Gravediggers from Guadix
movieThe Gravediggers from Guadix
1958 · Director
movieGlimpse of the Garden
1957 · Director
movieHurry, Hurry!
1957 · Director
Narcissus
movieNarcissus
1957 · Sibyl
Zenscapes
movieZenscapes
1957 · Director
movieImage in the Snow
1952 · Mother, Cinematography
movieVisual Variations on Noguchi
1945 · Director
movieThe Geography of the Body
1943 · Body, Cinematography
movieFor Leo Castelli
— · Director