Marie Menken Movies

Shot over a period of three years. Marie Menken photographed New York window displays during the Christmas holiday. In order to avoid foot and street...

In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...

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

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

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...

A film by Marie Menken.

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

Experimental film showing film clips of a garden, with birds chirping for the soundtrack.

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

Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center.

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

"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...

Marie Menken film

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...