Nina Menkes Movies

  • 2022
    Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

    Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

    Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

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    Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault...

    Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
  • 1991
    Queen of Diamonds

    Queen of Diamonds

    Queen of Diamonds

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    Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a...

    Queen of Diamonds
  • 2007
    Phantom Love

    Phantom Love

    Phantom Love

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

    Phantom Love
  • 1996
    The Bloody Child

    The Bloody Child

    The Bloody Child

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    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 Bloody Child
  • 2007
    Water Spell

    Water Spell

    Water Spell

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    "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,...

    Water Spell
  • 2010
    Dissolution

    Dissolution

    Dissolution

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

    Dissolution
  • 1983
    The Great Sadness of Zohara

    The Great Sadness of Zohara

    The Great Sadness of Zohara

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    A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.

    The Great Sadness of Zohara
  • 1986
    Magdalena Viraga

    Magdalena Viraga

    Magdalena Viraga

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    Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing...

    Magdalena Viraga
  • 2022
    The Lioness

    The Lioness

    The Lioness

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    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...

    The Lioness
  • 2024
    Her World

    Her World

    Her World

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    A short documentary about cinematic gaze featuring interviews with women in the film industry.

    Her World
  • 2005
    Massacre

    Massacre

    Massacre

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

    Massacre
  • 1981
    A Soft Warrior

    A Soft Warrior

    A Soft Warrior

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    Nina's first collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes, the film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka, and...

    A Soft Warrior
  • 2006
    Untitled #1

    Untitled #1

    Untitled #1

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    A small girl's nightmare. Untitled No.1 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante...

    Untitled #1