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Notes on Marie Menken /

Profiles avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken, who pioneered non-narrative film methods. In 1937 she married poet Willard Maas and in 1943 was the camera person on his film The geography of the body. After that she began to make her own short films.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Mina Film, Icarus Films Home Video
Other Authors: Kudláček, Martina, Zorn, John, 1953-, Hill, Henry
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films Home Video, [2009]
Subjects:
Menken, Marie, > 1909-1970.
Women motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
Experimental films > History and criticism.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Description
Summary:Profiles avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken, who pioneered non-narrative film methods. In 1937 she married poet Willard Maas and in 1943 was the camera person on his film The geography of the body. After that she began to make her own short films.
Item Description:Originally produced as a documentary film in 2006.
Bonus features: Three films by Marie Menken, Visual variations on Noguchi (1945); Glimpse of the garden (1957); Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1958-61).
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; region 1; NTSC; Dolby digital stereo.
Audience:MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits:Camera, Martina Kudláček ; original music, John Zorn.