Marie Menken Movies

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

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

A boat trip with friends round Manhattan, shot in single-frame mode

An expansion upon an idea put forward in Marie Menken's film Notebook; single-frame footage of the moon shot on various nights, blinking and darting...

A film by Marie Menken.

A film of a painting of a sound. Piet Mondrian's 'Broadway Boogie-Woogie' is translated into visual boogie rhythm.

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.

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

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...

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...

A short, diaristic film; A series of impressions, animations and playful vignettes in color and B&W. Early/ Outtake footage of Menken's Lights can be...