“Marie Menken is a lyrical poet. The structure of Menken’s filmic sentences, her movements, and her rhythms are those of poetry. She transposes reality into poetry. It’s through poetry that Menken reveals to us the subtle aspects of reality, the mysteries of the world and the mysteries of her own soul. Menken sings.”
-Jonas Mekas

“Her hand-held camera directly capturing external light shaped into representational images on film is, at the same time, recording her whole body’s reaction to what she is seeing through that camera.”
-Stan Brakhage

FILMS

1945 Visual Variations on Noguchi 4′
1957 Glimpse of the Garden 5′
1957 Hurry! Hurry! 3′
1959 Dwightiana 3′
1961 Arabesque for Kenneth Anger 4′
1961 Bagatelle for Willard Maas 5′
1961 Eye Music in Red Major 5′
1961 Drips in Strips 3′
1964 Moonplay 5′
1964 Go Go Go 11′
1964 Wrestling 8′
1965 Mood Mondrian 5.5′
1965 Andy Warhol 18′
1966 Lights 6′
1966 Sidewalks 6′
1967 Watts with Eggs 2′
1968 Excursion 5′

Total time: 109 min. Films made with 8mm &16mm, 1945-1968.

Released in cooperation with The New York Film-makers’ Cooperative.

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