Marie Menken
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-05-25
Day of Death
1970-12-29 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
New York, New York
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.
Acting
(2013)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
(2006)
Notes on Marie Menken
as Self (archive footage)
(1966)
Chelsea Girls
as Mother
(1965)
(1965)
The Life of Juanita Castro
as Juanita Castro
(1965)
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
(1965)
(1958)
Narcissus
as Sibyl
(1952)
Image in the Snow
as Mother
(1943)
The Geography of the Body
as Body
Crew
(1968)
Excursion
Director
(1967)
Watts with Eggs
Director
(1967)
In Search of the Miraculous
Camera Operator
(1966)
Lights
Director
(1966)
Sidewalks
Director
(1965)
Andy Warhol
Director, Cinematography
(1964)
Go! Go! Go!
Director
(1964)
Wrestling
Director, Writer
(1964)
Dionysus
Cinematography
(1964)
Lita's Party
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
(1963)
Notebook
Director
(1962)
Moonplay
Director, Cinematography
(1961)
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Director, Cinematography
(1961)
Eye Music in Red Major
Director
(1961)
Mood Mondrian
Director
(1961)
Drips in Strips
Director
(1961)
Bagatelle for Willard Maas
Director
(1959)
Dwightiana
Director
(1958)
The Gravediggers from Guadix
Director
(1957)
Glimpse of the Garden
Director
(1957)
Hurry, Hurry!
Director
(1952)
Image in the Snow
Cinematography
(1945)
Visual Variations on Noguchi
Director
(1943)
The Geography of the Body
Cinematography