Marie Menken Movies

In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and...

Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in...

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

Marie Menken film

"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...

A film poem, a re-telling of the Greek myth in modern terms. In the traditional pool the water has become muddy and Narcissus finds that mirrors are...

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

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

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

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...

"This is a new version of the now famous film made for her husband, the poet and film-maker. Returning from the Brussels fair, she shot this at...

A film by Marie Menken.

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family.