Mood Mondrian

Film directed by Marie Menken in 1965.

Synopsis
'In Mood Mondrian, filmmaker Marie Menken brought her reconstructive approach to visual art (as seen in her earlier Visual Variations on Noguchi) to bear on the painting 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' by Piet Mondrian. --David Lewis, All Movie Guide

Film notes
'A film of a painting of a sound. Piet Mondrian's 'Broadway Boogie-Woogie' is translated into visual boogie rhythm. --Marie Menken
'MOOD MONDRIAN can already be described as an extraordinary and perhaps revolutionary cinematic achievement. --Joseph LeSueur

Author: 

Marie Menken

Year: 

1965
Technical data

Original format: 

16mm

Speed: 

24FPS

Aspect ratio: 

1.37:1

Colour: 

Colour

Sound: 

Silent

Length: 

5 minutes

Distribution/sales: 

Copies for rent:
Light Cone

*Arsenal Experimental

Author(s)

  • Marie Menken

    Marie Menkevicius (25 May 1909 in New York City, New York - 29 December 1970) was an American experimental filmmaker and socialite.

    Personal Life The daughter of Catholic-Lithuanian immigrants, she grew up in Brooklyn. In 1931 she met and married Willard Maas, a professor of literature at Wagner College in Staten Island. It was a rocky and unstable marriage.

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