Marie Menken Movies

Shot over a period of three years. Marie Menken photographed New York window displays during the Christmas holiday. In order to avoid foot and street...

Menken's 16mm, stop-motion tribute to the art of Dwight Ripley was filmed in 1959 in his apartment at 416 East Fifty-eighth Street in New York. She...

A boat trip with friends round Manhattan, shot in single-frame mode

"A study in light based on persistence of vision and enhancement from eye fatigue." -- M.M.

A short, diaristic film; A series of impressions, animations and playful vignettes in color and B&W. Early/ Outtake footage of Menken's Lights can be...

Film shot by filmmaker Marie Menken in the mid-1960s. Preserved by the Anthology Film Archive (AFA).

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...

In this strange little film, Marie Menken photographs billowy flames superimposed over microscopic medical footage of writhing spermatozoa.

Experimental film showing film clips of a garden, with birds chirping for the soundtrack.

A film of a painting of a sound. Piet Mondrian's 'Broadway Boogie-Woogie' is translated into visual boogie rhythm.

A wrestling match shown on television, shot on film-- A tv 'concrete'.

"Spattered paint responding to gravity, forming its own patterns and combinations of color." -- M.M.