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Brainwashed is a 2022 American documentary film, directed by Nina Menkes. The writer-director "developed her 2017 essay and PowerPoint presentation into a film, examining the biased ways in which women are represented onscreen versus men."
Oct 20, 2022 · Directed by Nina Menkes, “Brainwashed” is a distressingly prescriptive documentary aimed at unpacking the patriarchal ways of seeing that have dominated the history of cinema.
- Beatrice Loayza
- Nina Menkes
May 13, 2023 · Independent director Nina Menkes’s documentary Brainwashed: Sex, Camera and Power gives women — and men who regard us as equals — another good reason to be angry. The film premiered on...
'Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power' illuminates the patriarchal narrative codes that hide within supposedly “classic” set-ups and camera angles, and demonstrates how women are frequently displayed as objects for the use, support, and pleasure of male subjects.
- Nina Menkes
- Joey Soloway
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power. You may never look at film the same way again after watching this illuminating journey, which deconstructs the male gaze in cinema. Documentary 2022 107 mins. Director: Nina Menkes. CC AD.
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is a mesmerising visual journey through cinema’s sexist bloodstream that will forever change the way you see and make films. Director Nina Menkes compels the casual moviegoer and cinephile alike to confront how the visual language of cinema is used to disempower women at the most fundamental level.