Marie Menken Movies

  • 1957
    Hurry, Hurry!

    Hurry, Hurry!

    Hurry, Hurry!

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

    Hurry, Hurry!
  • 1962
    Moonplay

    Moonplay

    Moonplay

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    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...

    Moonplay
  • 1966
    Sidewalks

    Sidewalks

    Sidewalks

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    Photography: Willard Maas and John Hawkins. "Looking down instead of around, while walking, finding the magic patterns in the pavements of a...

    Sidewalks
  • 1961
    Eye Music in Red Major

    Eye Music in Red Major

    Eye Music in Red Major

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

    Eye Music in Red Major
  • 1952
    Image in the Snow

    Image in the Snow

    Image in the Snow

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    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...

    Image in the Snow
  • 1967
    Watts with Eggs

    Watts with Eggs

    Watts with Eggs

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    "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...

    Watts with Eggs
  • 1959
    Dwightiana

    Dwightiana

    Dwightiana

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    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...

    Dwightiana
  • 1967
    In Search of the Miraculous

    In Search of the Miraculous

    In Search of the Miraculous

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    In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and...

    In Search of the Miraculous
  • 1968
    Excursion

    Excursion

    Excursion

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

    Excursion
  • 1958
    The Gravediggers from Guadix

    The Gravediggers from Guadix

    The Gravediggers from Guadix

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    A film by Marie Menken.

    The Gravediggers from Guadix
  • 1961
    Drips in Strips

    Drips in Strips

    Drips in Strips

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

    Drips in Strips
  • 1964
    Lita's Party

    Lita's Party

    Lita's Party

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

    Lita's Party