While it opens a rare window into an unconventional life, this portrait of an artist as an old woman is prone to strange distractions.
Notes on Marie Menken
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Austria, United States · 2006
1h 37m
Director Martina Kudlácek
Starring Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka, Alfred Leslie
Genre Documentary
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The story of Marie Menken, one of New York's outstanding underground filmmakers, who inspired and worked with renowned artists like Andy Warhol and became known as "the mother of the avant-garde." Menken produced nearly two dozen experimental shorts, gracefully using a hand-held Bolex camera to create rhythmic patterns of light, color, and form.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
While Kudlacek lets some of the elder statesmen ramble, their recollections are a vivid, firsthand window into a bygone era of American art.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Notes on Marie Menken shines a quavering if welcome ray of light on a largely forgotten figure in the American avant-garde film scene of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.
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