Marie Menken

Born: 1909-05-25 in New York, New York

Died: 1970-12-29

Known For: Directing

Biography

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

2006

Notes on Marie Menken as Self (archive footage)

1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
Excursion ... (Director)

1967

Watts with Eggs ... (Director)
In Search of the Miraculous ... (Camera Operator)

1966

Chelsea Girls as Mother
Lights ... (Director)
Sidewalks ... (Director)

1965

Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
The Life of Juanita Castro as Juanita Castro
Bitch
Andy Warhol ... (Director)
Prison

1964

Dionysus ... (Cinematography)
Lita's Party ... (Director)
Wrestling ... (Writer)
Go! Go! Go! ... (Director)

1963

Notebook ... (Director)

1962

Moonplay ... (Director)

1961

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger ... (Director)
Bagatelle for Willard Maas ... (Director)
Eye Music in Red Major ... (Director)
Mood Mondrian ... (Director)
Drips in Strips ... (Director)

1959

Dwightiana ... (Director)

1958

The Gravediggers from Guadix ... (Director)

1957

Narcissus as Sibyl
Glimpse of the Garden ... (Director)
Hurry, Hurry! ... (Director)