Marie Menken Movies

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

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

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

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...

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'.

"By 1967, Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece, Watts with EGGS, in which she...

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

A film by Marie Menken.

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...

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

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