Eye Music in Red Major (1961) by Marie Menken
Saturday, October 8, 1983, 8:00 pm
Marie Menken Retrospective
762 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA, 94110
Andy Warhol, 22 min.
Hurry! Hurry!, 3 min.
Glimpse of the Garden, 5 min.
Eye Music In Red Major, 4 min. and others
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger, 4 min. and others
From the ‘40s through the ‘60s Menken and her husband Willard Maas inspired and influenced such filmmakers as Brakhage, Anger, and Warhol (Menken held the title role in Warhol’s Life of Juanita Castro). “Marie Menken’s films exhibit a delicate and acute capacity for observing the material world and demonstrate her lighthearted, comic sense. her rhythmic devices were developed from single-frame techniques and constitute her most significant innovative contribution to cinema as an art.” —J.C. Lipzin