Search results for "Nina Menkes"
Phantom Love

Phantom Love

Phantom Love
IMDb: 6.1
87

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

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
IMDb: 6.2
107

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…

Dissolution

Dissolution

Dissolution
IMDb: 6.2
93

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…

Queen of Diamonds

Queen of Diamonds

Queen of Diamonds
IMDb: 6.2
77

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…

Genre: Drama
The Great Sadness of Zohara

The Great Sadness of Zohara

The Great Sadness of Zohara
IMDb: 5.9
39

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

The Bloody Child

The Bloody Child

The Bloody Child
IMDb: 4.4
85

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…

Genre: Drama
Magdalena Viraga

Magdalena Viraga

Magdalena Viraga
IMDb: 6.6
91

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…

Genre: Drama