Marie Menken Characteristics
New York City painter, collage artist and filmmaker Marie
Menken made little films of extraordinary grace and
vitality. Her expressive hand-held camera work and
attention to details of light, colour, texture, form and
rhythm give her short visual poems a unique quality
that's at once simple, direct and complete. Most often her
vision is a joyous one--studying the physical world
around her and capturing its essence through the eye of
the camera. Her images sing and her films entice the
viewer to enter her welcoming world.
Marie Menken