Marie Menken
Visual Variations
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Original format 8mm, 16mm
Year 1945-1968
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Marie Menken
Author(s) Jonas Mekas, Laura Staab, Stan Brakhage
Booklet 52 pages (French, English)
Running time 109 min
Films
VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (1945) 4'
GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957) 5'
HURRY! HURRY! (1957) 3'
DWIGHTIANA (1959) 3'
ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961) 4'
BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS (1961) 5'
EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR (1961) 5'
DRIPS IN STRIPS (1961) 3'
MOONPLAY (1964) 5'
GO GO GO (1964) 11'
WRESTLING (1964) 8'
MOOD MONDRIAN (1965) 5'
ANDY WARHOL (1965) 18'
LIGHTS (1966) 6'
SIDEWALKS (1966) 6'
WATTS WITH EGGS (1967) 2'
EXCURSION (1968) 5'
THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY by Willard Maas (1943) 7'
Description
"Marie Menken is a lyric poet. The structure of Menken's filmic phrases, her movements and rhythms are those of poetry. She transposes reality into poetry. It is through poetry that Menken reveals to us the subtle aspects of reality, the mysteries of the world and the mysteries of her own soul. Menken sings. Her lens is focused on the physical world, but she sees it through a poetic temperament and with heightened sensitivity. She catches the fragments and snippets of the world around her and organizes them into aesthetic units that communicate to us. Her cinematic language and imagery are sharp, clear, marvelous. Certain moments in Arabesque and Notebook are among the most inspired phrases of cinematic poetry."
— Jonas Mekas