Score for steel drum, guitar and flute by Teiji Ito.
"A charming, frivolous animation 'made to entertain a sick friend.'" - Cinema 16
Award: Special Citation, Creative Film Foundation
16mm, color/so, 3.5m, $25
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
1957, 16mm, color/so, 5m, $25
Experimental soundtrack: continuous bombardment.
"A daring film ballet danced by human spermatozoa under powerful magnification ... a dance of death made from scientific footage, printed over murky fire." - Cinema 16
1957, 16mm, color/so, 3m, $25
These are too tiny or too obvious for comment, but one or two are my dearest children. "It is a very personal film which she keeps adding to ... a masterpiece of filmic fragments, only shown once, but wow!" - P. Adams Sitney
1962-63, 16mm, color/si, 10m (24fps), $35
"Poetry of natural sound" score by Lucille Dlugoszewski.
"By use of hand-held, ambulating camera, unusual editing and a startling experimental score by Lucille Dlugozewski, the sculptures of the famous Japanese-American artist, Isamu Noguchi, are given audacious movement in a controversial art-film experiment." - Cinema 16
"Never before have I seen such purely dynamic treatment of sculpture in film. Marie Menken has successfully transformed Noguchi's sculpture into her own medium." - Norman McLaren
1945, 16mm, b&w/so, 4m, $25