"Marie Menken is a lyric poet. The structure of Menken's film sentences, her movements and rhythms, are those of poetry. She transposes reality into poetry. It is 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 focus is on the physical world, but she sees it through a poetic temperament and with heightened sensitivity. She captures the snatches and fragments of the world around her and arranges them into aesthetic units that communicate with us. Her cinematic language and imagery are sharp, clear, and wonderful. Certain moments in Arabesque and Notebook are among the most inspired sentences in cinematic poetry." (Jonas Mekas)

Films:
VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (1945, 4 min)
GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957, 5 min)
HURRY! HURRY! (1957, 3 min)
DWIGHTIANA (1959, 3 min)
ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961, 4 min)
BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS (1961, 5 min)
EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR (1961, 5 min)
DRIPS IN STRIPS (1961, 3 min)
MOONPLAY (1964, 5 min)
GO GO GO (1964, 11 min)
WRESTLING (1964, 8 min)
MOOD MONDRIAN (1965, 5 min)
ANDY WARHOL (1965, 18 min)
LIGHTS (1966, 6 min)
SIDEWALKS (1966, 6 min)
WATTS WITH EGGS (1967, 2 min)
EXCURSION (1968, 5 min)

Bonus Film:
THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY (Willard Maas, 1943, 7 min)

Includes a 52-page booklet (English & French) with texts by Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, and Laura Staab

Publisher: ReVoir, The Film-makers' Cooperative