Glimpse of the Garden (Marie Menken, 1957)

[Fitzcarraldo]

Next to Maya Deren, the female icon of the Avant-garde cinema, Marie Menken (1909-1970) was the other outstanding woman pioneer filmmaker of the 1940s through the 1960s in New York. Menken made about 20 short film poems of beauty, joy, and vitality in 16 mm. Hers is a very personal cinema without protagonists. It searches to express the viewer's emotional point-of-view to the limits of abstraction and rhythm (like Glimpse of a Garden, Eye Music In Red Major, Arabesque For Kenneth Anger, Go! Go! Go!, Wrestlers, Lights and Andy Warhol). For these films, she was the cameraperson and the editor "within the camera." The presence of her body gives the succession and patterns of images a physical quality. She is a master of single frame. Her filmic project Notebook, structured in a lyrical diary-style, has inspired many similar films up to this day. Her work tends to be brief and to the point - a high artistry. It reminds me of the late Maya Deren asking for "filmic haiku", a lyrical essence of poetry. I am fascinated by Menken's essential feeling for rhythm. I am encouraged by her playfulness.
- Jon Gartenberg

Glimpse of the Garden

Soundtrack: birdsong

"A lyric, tender, intensely subjective exploration of a flower garden, with extreme magnification, flashing color harmonies." - Cinema 16

"She deserves the order of the square halo, first class, with harps in diamonds." - Dwight Ripley

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Marie Menken - Glimpse of the Garden 1957 VHSrip XviD CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi

[seiyuro_hiko]

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[auess]

THANKS AGAIN AND AGAIN.............:plas::plas:

[luchifers]

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