Movies by Nina Menkes
Welcome to our dedicated selection of films directed by Nina Menkes. Here, you can explore a diverse range of works that highlight Nina Menkes’s unique vision, storytelling style, and contribution to the world of cinema. Whether you’re an avid fan or discovering Nina menkes’s filmography for the first time, this collection will guide you through critically acclaimed masterpieces, hidden gems, and influential titles that have shaped the director’s legacy.
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)
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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 and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.
Dissolution (2010)
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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 permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot is Yafo (the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv), the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption, of a young, morose Israeli Jew, played by Israeli actor Didi Fire
Phantom Love (2007)
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A surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.
The Bloody Child (1996)
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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 middle of the California Mojave.
Queen of Diamonds (1991)
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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 missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world unfolds as a fragmented interplay between repetition and repressed anger.
Magdalena Viraga (1986)
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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 her pimp.
The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983)
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A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.