Nina Menkes

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

21 de out. de 2022

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

08 de jul. de 2010

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

19 de jan. de 2007

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

11 de out. de 1991

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

01 de jan. de 1983

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. Fro...

28 de set. de 2022

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...

14 de mai. de 1986

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 m...

26 de out. de 1996

01 de jan. de 2007

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

16 de fev. de 2005

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

01 de fev. de 1981