Nina Menkes

Nina Menkes is associated with: Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Movies Made By Nina Menkes (11)

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020. ...

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The Lioness (2022)

The filmmaker works with material that was created twenty years ago during a trip to India, and which is now seeing the light of day after all. From her own found footage emerges, hypnotically, the image of the lioness - entirely in keeping with this editi ...

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Dissolution (2010)

Hitparkut (Dissolution) combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. ...

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Phantom Love (2007)

A surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India. ...

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Water Spell (2007)

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me, this film is about reincarnation and transformation, on both the spiritual and sub-atomic levels. This is not ...

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Massacre (2005)

Interviews with six of the mass murderers from Sabra and Shatilla. The faces are in black and are not identifiable. ...

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The Bloody Child (1996)

This film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave. ...

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Queen of Diamonds (1991)

Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus' world unfolds as a fragmented interplay between ...

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