"A study in light based on persistence of vision and enhancement from eye fatigue." -- M.M.

Film directed by Marie Menken in 1959. Score for steel drum, guitar and flute by Teiji Ito. Special citation, Creative Film Foundation.

Wonderful short film by Marie Menken, picturing Andy Warhol in the early sixties, at the peak at his creativity. Menken's 'Andy Warhol' is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker and painter Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, Menken captures Warhol and his assistants, including Gerard Malanga, as they work at the Factory. The result is an intimate portrait of the artist in the process of creating some of his most famous works, including the Brillo boxes, the Jackie series, and the Flowers silkscreens, all done in Menken's trademark fragmentary style.

A voice occasionally says a word or two: "on the sidewalk" or "lithium" or a woman's name. A hand-held camera frames parts of sculptures, or moves across their surfaces, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, almost always in close-up. The soundtrack, in addition to the voice, is discordant music. Light and shadows are paramount. Sometimes the camera repeats up and down movements; once, a set of jump cuts brings an object closer. The music can be shrill in contrast to the sculptures. Almost entirely of wood, they are the work of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988): Abstract, usually smooth and rounded (but not always).

Experimental film showing film clips of a garden, with birds chirping for the soundtrack.

Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in Moorish architecture and in ancient Spanish tile. The date 1961 refers to the addition of Teiji Ito's soundtrack and its subsequent completion, but the film was likely shot in 1960 or earlier.

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

Marie Menken(瑪麗門肯),美國前衛電影先驅

3-min short film. Sperm competing to get the egg in a woman's body. Fire image overlapping, and battlefieldlike soundtrack.