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Nina Menkes is an independent filmmaker. [ 1 ] : 202 [ 2 ] : 82 Her films include The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Magdalena Viraga (1986), Queen of Diamonds (1991), The Bloody Child (1996), "Massacre (Massaker)" (2005), Phantom Love (2007), Dissolution (2010), and Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022).
Nina Menkes synthesizes inner dream-worlds with harsh, outer realities. She has been called “brilliant, one of the most provocative artists in film today” by the Los Angeles Times and her body of work was described as “controversial, intense and visually stunning” by Sight and Sound.
Nina Menkes. Director: Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power. Considered a cinematic feminist pioneer and one of America's foremost independent filmmakers, Menkes has shown widely in major international film festivals including multiple premieres at Sundance, the Berlinale, Cannes, The New York Film Festival, Locarno, Toronto, La Cinematheque Francaise
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Considered a cinematic feminist pioneer and one of America’s foremost independent filmmakers, Nina Menkes has shown widely in major international film festivals including multiple premieres at Sundance, the Berlinale, Cannes (ACID), Rotterdam, Locarno, Toronto, The New York Film Festival, La Cinematheque Francaise, British Film Institute ...
May 5, 2023 · Nina Menkes has made a long career — 40 years and counting — of not only making films, but deconstructing them through a radically feminist perspective on cinema, starting with her inversion of the Campbellian hero myth in The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), and carried through her seven subsequent features, including the convention-shattering d...
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Nov 29, 2022 · Nina Menkes is a filmmaker and a critic who selects her favorite films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Carl Th. Dreyer, Agnès Varda, and others. Her list reflects her interest in spirituality, feminism, and cinematic innovation.
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...
