“Divided Cells” by Rainer Bellenbaum
Marie Menken, who moved in New York’s art scene from the 1950s onwards and rose to fame in the orbit of Andy Warhol’s Factory, has recently been rediscovered as an avant-garde filmmaker. This is primarily due to documentary filmmaker Martina Kudláˇcek, whose homage to Menken shows how, for instance, Menken translated elements of Pop Art into the experimental language of her films.
“Notes on Marie Menken” by CHRISTA BLÜMLINGER,
January 2006
What might already be familiar are anecdotes relating to a shining figure of the American underground who was the inspiration for one of Edward Albee’s plays.
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