Marie Menken

Directing·May 25, 1909·New York, New York

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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.

Film	Credit
NNotes on Marie Menken2006 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Excursion1968 · Director	Director
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968 · Self	Self
Watts with Eggs1967 · Director	Director
Chelsea Girls1966 · Mother	Mother
Lights1966 · Director	Director
Sidewalks1966 · Director	Director
Andy Warhol Screen Tests1965 · Self	Self
Andy Warhol1965 · Director	Director
The Life of Juanita Castro1965 · Juanita Castro	Juanita Castro
Bitch1965 · Actor	Actor
Prison1965 · Actor	Actor
Wrestling1964 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Lita's Party1964 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Go! Go! Go!1964 · Director	Director
Notebook1963 · Director	Director
Moonplay1962 · Director	Director
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger1961 · Director	Director
Bagatelle for Willard Maas1961 · Director	Director
Eye Music in Red Major1961 · Director	Director
Mood Mondrian1961 · Director	Director
Drips in Strips1961 · Director	Director
Dwightiana1959 · Director	Director
TThe Gravediggers from Guadix1958 · Director	Director
Glimpse of the Garden1957 · Director	Director
Hurry, Hurry!1957 · Director	Director
NNarcissus1957 · Sibyl	Sibyl
ZZenscapes1957 · Director	Director
Image in the Snow1952 · Mother	Mother
Visual Variations on Noguchi1945 · Director	Director
The Geography of the Body1943 · Body	Body
For Leo CastelliDirector	Director