Willard Maas
Willard Maas | |
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| Born | June 24, 1906 |
| Died | January 2, 1971 (aged 64) New York City, US |
| Occupation(s) | Experimental filmmaker, poet |
| Spouse | Marie Menken |
Willard Maas (June 24, 1906 – January 2, 1971) was an American experimental filmmaker and poet.
Personal life and career
Maas was born in
According to their associate Andy Warhol, "Willard and Marie were the last of the great bohemians. They wrote and filmed and drank—their friends called them 'scholarly drunks'—and were involved with all the modern poets."[2]
In the 1960s, Maas was a faculty member at
Maas died in Brooklyn Heights on January 2, 1971, four days after Menken had died of an alcohol-related illness. He was cremated.
The Maas/Menken materials and letters are at the University of Texas at Austin. A selection of them is on deposit/loan (in Trust) at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. The Willard Maas Papers—a collection of about 500 letters, manuscripts, page proofs, photographs, drawings, play scripts, and film scripts from 1931 to 1967—is housed at Brown University.[5]
Films
As director
- 1943 – Geography of the Body (with Marie Menken)
- 1955 – The Mechanics of Love (with Ben Moore) original John Gruen
- 1943–48 – Image in the Snow
- 1956 – Narcissus (a film poem by Ben Moore and Willard Maas)
- 1966 – Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations
- 1967 – Orgia
As cinematographer
- 1955 – Dionysis (directed by Charles Boultenhouse, co-cinematography by Menken)
- 1956 – Narcissus
As actor
- 1965 – A Valentine for Marie (directed by John H. Hawkins)
References
- ^ "When Staten Island was avant-garde: Wagner College revisits ties to Albee's Virginia Woolf" by Michael J. Fressola, Staten Island Advance, January 3, 2019
- ^ a b Electronic Arts Intermix
- ^ "Notes on Marie Menken (2006)" by Martina Kudláček
- ^ Scott McDonald, A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (University of California Press, 1988)
- ^ "Willard Maas papers, 1931–1967", John Hay Library, Brown University
External links
- Willard Maas at IMDb
- "Willard Maas (1909–1971)", UbuWeb
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