
Marie Menken
Directing
1909-05-25 · New York, New York
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
2006 · Movie

Excursion
1968 · Movie

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Movie

In Search of the Miraculous
1967 · Movie

Watts with Eggs
1967 · Movie

Chelsea Girls
1966 · Movie

Lights
1966 · Movie

Sidewalks
1966 · Movie

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965 · Movie

Andy Warhol
1965 · Movie

The Life of Juanita Castro
1965 · Movie

Bitch
1965 · Movie

Prison
1965 · Movie

Wrestling
1964 · Movie

Dionysus
1964 · Movie

Lita's Party
1964 · Movie

Go! Go! Go!
1964 · Movie

Notebook
1963 · Movie

Moonplay
1962 · Movie

Bagatelle for Willard Maas
1961 · Movie

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
1961 · Movie

Drips in Strips
1961 · Movie

Mood Mondrian
1961 · Movie

Eye Music in Red Major
1961 · Movie

Dwightiana
1959 · Movie
The Gravediggers from Guadix
1958 · Movie

Glimpse of the Garden
1957 · Movie

Hurry, Hurry!
1957 · Movie
Narcissus
1957 · Movie
Zenscapes
1957 · Movie

Image in the Snow
1952 · Movie

Visual Variations on Noguchi
1945 · Movie

The Geography of the Body
1943 · Movie

For Leo Castelli
Movie