Marie Menken
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Title
Marie Menken
Contributor
Contributor Item Type Metadata
First Name
Marie
Surname or Business Name
Menken
Years Affiliated
2019
Birth Date
1909
Birthplace
United States
Death Date
1970
Occupation
Filmmaker
Biographical Text
Marie Menken was an underground experimental filmmaker known as “the mother of the avant-garde,” having influenced and worked with internationally renowned artists such as Andy Warhol. She progressed from painting to filmmaking in 1945, when she made her first avant-garde film using a handheld Bolex camera. Since then, she was celebrated for her intuitive, free-form cinematic style and for taking filmmaking to a new direction with the way she created poetic patterns of light, colour, and texture. Her films are fragmentary encounters with friends, landscapes, and her urban surroundings.
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Collection
Citation
“Marie Menken,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/756.
Item Relations
| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Film Programme: Resonating Structures (Gardens) |