Hurry! Hurry!

Film directed by Marie Menken in 1957.

Synopsis
'Stock microscopic footage of laboratory sperm, sped up and re-edited into a 'dance of death.' --David Lewis, All Movie Guide

Film notes
'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

Author: 

Marie Menken

Year: 

1957
Technical data

Original format: 

16mm

Speed: 

24FPS

Aspect ratio: 

1.37:1

Colour: 

Colour

Sound: 

Optical

Length: 

3 minutes

Distribution/sales: 

Copies for rent:
Canyon Cinema
Light Cone

LUX
*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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