Marie Menken Movies

Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, 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...

"This is a new version of the now famous film made for her husband, the poet and film-maker. Returning from the Brussels fair, she shot this at...

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

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

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...

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...

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Zenscapes is an abstract film on light

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

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

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

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.