Nina Menkes Movies
- 2022
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...
- 1991
Queen of Diamonds
Queen of Diamonds51991HD
Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a...
- 2007
Phantom Love
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A surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.
- 1996
The Bloody Child
The Bloody Child51996HD
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...
- 2007
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,...
- 2010
Dissolution
Dissolution5.62010HD
Hitparkut (Dissolution) combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which...
- 1983
The Great Sadness of Zohara
The Great Sadness of Zohara5.71983HD
A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.
- 1986
Magdalena Viraga
Magdalena Viraga6.31986HD
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...
- 2022
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...
- 2024
Her World
Her World02024HD
A short documentary about cinematic gaze featuring interviews with women in the film industry.
- 2005
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.
- 1981
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...
- 2006
Untitled #1
Untitled #152006HD
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...