Light Cone

by Marie MENKEN

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Marie Menken is a lyrical poet. The structure of Menken's filmic sentences, her movements, and her rhythms are those of poetry. She transposes reality into poetry. It's through poetry that Menken reveals to us the subtle aspects of reality, the mysteries of the world and the mysteries of her own soul. Menken sings. Her lens is focused on the physical world, but she sees it through a poetic temperament and with an intensified sensitivity. She catches the bits and fragments of the world around her and organizes them into aesthetic unities which communicate to us. Her filmic language and her imagery are crisp, clear, wondrous. There are moments in Arabesque and in Notebook that are among the most inspired sentences in filmic poetry.
-Jonas Mekas

Her hand-held camera directly capturing external light shaped into representational images on film is, at the same time, recording her whole body’s reaction to what she is seeing through that camera. She always tended, when taking pictures, to dance and, when editing those film strips, then, to capture the eye’s dance (rather than, say, some idealized stance- dance of the ‘mind’s eye’). She would hang up the strips and film and study the patterns, right, left, up, down, and splice them together as designs in Time—plenty of ideas arising in these arrangements of rhythmic Form, but no superimposed ideology.
-Stan Brakhage

CONTENT

	VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI 1945 / n&b / sonore / 4' 00 by Marie MENKEN
	GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN 1957 / couleur / sonore / 4' 00 by Marie MENKEN
	HURRY HURRY 1957 / 16mm / couleur / sonore / 4' 51 by Marie MENKEN
	DWIGHTIANA 1959 / 16mm / couleur / sonore / 3' 30 by Marie MENKEN
	ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER 1961 / couleur / sonore / 4' 00 by Marie MENKEN
	BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS 1961 / 16mm / couleur / sonore / 6' 00 by Marie MENKEN
	DRIPS IN STRIPS 1961 / couleur / silencieux / 2' 05 by Marie MENKEN
	EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR 1961 / 16mm / couleur / silencieux / 5' 30 by Marie MENKEN
	NOTEBOOK 1962-1963 / coul-n&b / silencieux / 10' 00 by Marie MENKEN
	MOONPLAY 1962 / n&b / sonore / 5' 00 by Marie MENKEN
	GO GO GO 1962-1964 / 16mm / couleur / silencieux / 11' 30 by Marie MENKEN
	WRESTLING 1964 / n&b / silencieux / 8' 00 by Marie MENKEN
	MOOD MONDRIAN 1961 / couleur / silencieux / 5' 30 by Marie MENKEN
	ANDY WARHOL 1965 / couleur / silencieux / 22' 00 by Marie MENKEN
	LIGHTS 1966 / couleur / muet / 6' 17 by Marie MENKEN
	SIDEWALKS 1966 / n&b / silencieux / 6' 50 by Marie MENKEN
	WATTS WITH EGGS 1967 / couleur / silencieux / 2' 25 by Marie MENKEN
	EXCURSION 1968 / couleur / silencieux / 5' 13 by Marie MENKEN