Marie Menken was born Marie Menkevicius in New York City on May 25, 1909, the daughter of Catholic Lithuanian immigrants. She grew up in Brooklyn with a brother and a sister, in a home used to frequent financial difficulties. Both she and her sister Adele later changed their surname to Menken. Marie Menken and Willard Maas had got married in 1937, moving into a Brooklyn penthouse at 62 Montague Street which they would inhabit until their deaths. She died on December 29, 1970. Four days after her death, on January 2, 1971, Willard Maas died.

Filmography

• 1968Excursion — Director
• 1967In Search of the Miraculous — Camera Operator
• 1967Watts with Eggs — Director
• 1966Chelsea Girls — Mother
• 1966Lights — Director
• 1966Sidewalks — Director
• 1965Andy Warhol — Director, Cinematography
• 1965Bitch
• 1965Prison
• 1965The Life of Juanita Castro — Juanita Castro
• 1964Dionysus — Cinematography
• 1964Go! Go! Go! — Director
• 1964Lita's Party — Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 1964Wrestling — Writer, Director
• 1963Notebook — Director
• 1962Moonplay — Director, Cinematography
• 1961Arabesque for Kenneth Anger — Director, Cinematography
• 1961Bagatelle for Willard Maas — Director
• 1961Drips in Strips — Director
• 1961Eye Music in Red Major — Director
• 1961Mood Mondrian — Director
• 1959Dwightiana — Director
• 1958The Gravediggers from Guadix — Director
• 1957Glimpse of the Garden — Director
• 1957Hurry, Hurry! — Director
• 1957Narcissus — Sibyl
• 1957Zenscapes — Director
• 1952Image in the Snow — Mother, Cinematography
• 1945Visual Variations on Noguchi — Director
• 1943The Geography of the Body — Body, Cinematography
• For Leo Castelli — Director

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2006Notes on Marie Menken — Self (archive footage)
• 1968Diaries, Notes, and Sketches — Self
• 1965Andy Warhol Screen Tests — Self