Marie Menken

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.

Directed

1. Lights (1966) — Director
2. Glimpse of the Garden (1957) — Director
3. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1961) — Director
4. Go! Go! Go! (1964) — Director
5. Notebook (1963) — Director
6. Andy Warhol (1965) — Director
7. Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945) — Director
8. Eye Music in Red Major (1961) — Director
9. Hurry, Hurry! (1957) — Director
10. Watts with Eggs (1967) — Director
11. Moonplay (1962) — Director
12. Dwightiana (1959) — Director
13. Wrestling (1964) — Director
14. Mood Mondrian (1961) — Director
15. Bagatelle for Willard Maas (1961) — Director
16. Drips in Strips (1961) — Director
17. Sidewalks (1966) — Director
18. The Gravediggers from Guadix (1958) — Director
19. Excursion (1968) — Director
20. Lita's Party (1964) — Director
21. Zenscapes (1957) — Director
22. For Leo Castelli — Director

Also appeared in

1. Chelsea Girls (1966) — Mother
2. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
3. The Geography of the Body (1943) — Body
4. The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) — Juanita Castro
5. Notes on Marie Menken (2006) — Self (archive footage)
6. Image in the Snow (1952) — Mother
7. Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965) — Self
8. Bitch (1965)
9. Narcissus (1957) — Sibyl
10. Prison (1965)