Marie Menken
Directing
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.
Known for
Directing22
movieExcursion
1968
Director
movieWatts with Eggs
1967
Director
movieLights
1966
Director
movieSidewalks
1966
Director
movieAndy Warhol
1965
Director
movieWrestling
1964
Director
movieLita's Party
1964
Director
movieGo! Go! Go!
1964
Director
movieNotebook
1963
Director
movieMoonplay
1962
Director
movieEye Music in Red Major
1961
Director
movieMood Mondrian
1961
Director
movieDrips in Strips
1961
Director
movieDwightiana
1959
Director
movieGlimpse of the Garden
1957
Director
movieHurry, Hurry!
1957
Director
Zenscapes
1957
Director
movieFor Leo Castelli
Director
Acting10
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
Self (archive footage)
movieChelsea Girls
1966
Mother
movieThe Life of Juanita Castro
1965
Juanita Castro
Crew6
movieAndy Warhol
1965
Cinematography
movieDionysus
1964
Cinematography
movieMoonplay
1962
Cinematography
movieArabesque for Kenneth Anger
1961
Cinematography
movieImage in the Snow
1952
Cinematography
movieThe Geography of the Body
1943
Cinematography
Camera2
movieIn Search of the Miraculous
1967
Camera Operator
movieLita's Party
1964
Director of Photography
Editing1
movieLita's Party
1964
Editor
Writing1
movieWrestling
1964
Writer