Name
Marie Menken
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1909-05-25
Deathday
1970-12-29 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
New York, New York
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.
Known For
7.3
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life...
5.5
Follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City....
5.2
A quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," prece...
5.5
Experimental film showing film clips of a garden, with birds chirping for the soundtrack....
5.7
Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for ...
6.2
Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed....
- 1957 Narcissus as Sibyl
- 1952 Image in the Snow as Mother
- 1965 Bitch
- 1943 The Geography of the Body as Body
- 1965 The Life of Juanita Castro as Juanita Castro
- 2006 Notes on Marie Menken as Self (archive footage)
- 1965 Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
- 1965 Prison
- 1966 Chelsea Girls as Mother
- 1968 Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
