Notes on Marie menken
Director Martina Kudlacek
Countries Austria
Duration 97 min
Synopsis
What might already be familiar are anecdotes relating to a shining figure of the American underground who was the inspiration for one of Edward Albee's plays. In its search for the complex wife of Willard Maas, Notes on Marie Menken enters unfamiliar terrain. This portrait, subtly constructed from the accounts of contemporaries and forgotten archival material, illuminates a previously underestimated protagonist of New York's avant-garde in fragments.
What might already be familiar are anecdotes relating to a shining figure of the American underground who was the inspiration for one of Edward Albee's plays. In its search for the complex wife of Willard Maas, Notes on Marie Menken enters unfamiliar terrain. This portrait, subtly constructed from the accounts of contemporaries and forgotten archival material, illuminates a previously underestimated protagonist of New York's avant-garde in fragments.