Willard Maas (b. 1906 or 1911; d. January 2, 1971) was an American experimental filmmaker and poet.

He was the husband of the filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken. They achieved some renown in New York City's modern art world of the 1940s through the 1960s, both for their experimental films as well as 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."[http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=8361

Maas's 1956 film Narcissus stars members of The Living Theatre. He is also notable for having performed fellatio on Tom Baker for the Warhol film Blow Job.

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.^*

Films

• 1943 - Geography of the Body
• 1955 - The Mechanics of Love (with Ben Moore)
• 1950s (no date) - Image in the Snow
• 1956 - Narcissus
• 1966 - Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations
• 1967 - Orgia

External links

• Information about Willard Maas

Year of birth missing | American experimental filmmakers | Year of birth missing | 1971 deaths