{"id":6645,"date":"2010-01-11T02:51:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T01:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2010-01-11T02:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T01:51:55","slug":"arabesque-for-kenneth-anger-by-marie-menken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/11\/arabesque-for-kenneth-anger-by-marie-menken\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabesque for Kenneth Anger by Marie Menken"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“There is no why for my making films. I just liked the twitters of the machine, and since it was an extension of painting for me, I tried it and loved it. In painting I never liked the staid and static, always looked for what would change the source of light and stance, using glitters, glass beads, luminous paint, so the camera was a natural for me to try\u2014but how expensive!” Marie Menken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger<\/em><\/a> (1961) is a short film by artist and filmmaker Marie Menken (1909\u20131970) available for viewing at Ubuweb. This is a fragmented impression of the Alhambra made as a thank you gift to Anger whose shots of a fountain spout catching the sunlight can’t help but seem like a nod to Anger’s Eaux D’Artifice<\/em> (1953). Menken had the dubious distinction of being the model for Martha in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?<\/em>, the tempestuous relationship in the play being based on Menken’s equally tempestuous marriage to Willard Maas.<\/p>\n

More Marie Menken:
\n\u2022 Visual Variations on Noguchi<\/a> (1945)
\n\u2022 Glimpse of the Garden<\/a> (1957)
\n\u2022 Notes on Marie Menken: A film by Martina Kudl\u00e1?ek<\/a>
\n\u2022 The paintings of Marie Menken<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Edmund Teske<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kenneth Anger on DVD again<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mouse Heaven by Kenneth Anger<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Man We Want to Hang by Kenneth Anger<\/a>
\n\u2022 Relighting the Magick Lantern<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kenneth Anger on DVD\u2026finally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There is no why for my making films. I just liked the twitters of the machine, and since it was an extension of painting for me, I tried it and loved it. In painting I never liked the staid and static, always looked for what would change the source of light and stance, using glitters, … Continue reading “Arabesque for Kenneth Anger by Marie Menken”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,7,46],"tags":[819,930,401,928,119,929],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-film","category-theatre","tag-edmund-teske","tag-edward-albee","tag-kenneth-anger","tag-marie-menken","tag-ubuweb","tag-willard-maas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}