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Willard Maas (b.
24 June 1906 - 2 January 1971) was an American experimental filmmaker and poet.
He was the husband of filmmaker Marie Menken.
The couple achieved some renown in New York City's modern art world of the 1940s through the 1960s, both for their experimental films and for their salons, which brought together artists, writers, filmmakers and intellectuals.
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.
In the 1960s, Maas was a faculty member at Wagner College and an organizer of the New York City Writer's Conference at the college where Edward Albee was a writer in residence.
The filmmaker Kenneth Anger indicates that Maas and Menken may have been a significant part of the inspiration for the characters of George and Martha in Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Scott McDonald - 'A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers' (University of California Press - 1988).
Maas died on January 2 1971, four days after Menken had died of alcohol related illness.
He was cremated.
The Maas/Menken materials and letters are located at the University of Texas (in Austin).
A selection of these items is on deposit/loan (in Trust) at the Anthology Film Archives in New York.
The Willard Maas Papers - a collection of approximately 500 letters, manuscripts, page proofs, photographs, drawings, play scripts, and film scripts from the period 1931-1967 - is housed at Brown University.
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The films were made between 1964 and 1966...Andy Warhol Screen Tests 1965
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Andy Warhol directs a single 35minute...Blow Job 1964
Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.
Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain...Arabesque for Kenneth Anger 1961
Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in Moorish architecture and in ancient Spanish tile. The date 1961 refers to the addition of Teiji Ito's soundtrack and its subsequent completion, but the film was likely shot in 1960 or earlier. - David Lewis
This short begins with a couple...The Mechanics of Love 1955
This short begins with a couple about to make love, and then does a tour of innocuous objects in the room around them that invariably suggest sexual activity.
A quotation from Aristophanes The desire...The Geography of the Body 1943
A quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," precedes views of a man and a woman's bodies, often in extreme close up. Off-screen, a voice recites fragments of oracular literature and purple prose. We see an eye, an ear, a mouth, a tongue, bits of hair, a hand, the tips of fingers, toes. Occasionally, the frame includes a larger scape of a body: a chest, a back, a breast. Usually the camera is stationery; sometimes, it moves across a body, remaining in close up. They hold hands for one moment. The bodies are without clothes; no genitalia are visible.
