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Marie Menken
New York, New York
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…
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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.
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2006
Notes on Marie Menken
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1968
Excursion
Movie Director
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1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie Self
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1967
In Search of the Miraculous
Movie Camera Operator
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1967
Watts with Eggs
Movie Director
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1966
Chelsea Girls
Movie Mother
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1966
Lights
Movie Director
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1966
Sidewalks
Movie Director
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1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Movie Self
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1965
Andy Warhol
Movie Director
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1965
The Life of Juanita Castro
Movie Juanita Castro
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1965
Bitch
Movie
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1965
Prison
Movie
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1964
Wrestling
Movie Writer
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1964
Dionysus
Movie Cinematography
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1964
Lita's Party
Movie Director
More credits
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1964
Go! Go! Go!
Movie Director
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1963
Notebook
Movie Director
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1962
Moonplay
Movie Director
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1961
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Movie Director
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1961
Bagatelle for Willard Maas
Movie Director
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1961
Eye Music in Red Major
Movie Director
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1961
Mood Mondrian
Movie Director
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1961
Drips in Strips
Movie Director
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1959
Dwightiana
Movie Director
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1958
The Gravediggers from Guadix
Movie Director
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1957
Glimpse of the Garden
Movie Director
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1957
Hurry, Hurry!
Movie Director
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1957
Narcissus
Movie Sibyl
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1957
Zenscapes
Movie Director
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1952
Image in the Snow
Movie Mother
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1945
Visual Variations on Noguchi
Movie Director
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1943
The Geography of the Body
Movie Body
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For Leo Castelli
Movie Director
