Nina Menkes (born 1955) 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). Dissolution (2010) was filmed in black and white and is set in Israel.[3][4] Nina Menkes' sister Tinka appears as an actress in many of them.[3] Menkes teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, California.[3] She has donated copies of several of her works to the Academy Film Archive.[5]
The Bloody Child, 1996, was based on a murder; it was the last film Menkes and her sister Tinka made together, and the last film she made for about ten years.[3]
In 2018 Menkes presented an illustrated talk on "Sex and Power, the Visual Language of Oppression" in several venues, among them the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes and the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.[12] She built upon this work in creating Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022).[13][14]Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power premiered at the Sundance Film Festival,[11][15] and has been shown at Berlinale[13]
CPH:DOX,[16]
JEONJU International Film Festival,[17] and
Beldocs International Film Festival[18]
It is also scheduled for the Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival.[19]
Two of Menkes' films—Magdalena Viraga and Queen of Diamonds—have been preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in 2012 and 2019, respectively.[23]
References
^ abRichard Armstrong, Richard Marshall, Lisa Phillips, John G. Hanhardt (1987). Biennial 1987. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, London: W. W. Norton Company. ISBN9780393304398.