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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Nina Menkes, USA 2022, 108’
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A lecture by an independent director and academic, illustrated by film fragments. Nina Menkes explains how basic film techniques objectify women on screen, and the consequences it has for their work in film. Cinema imperturbably reproduces the patriarchal vision of the world.

‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’: Filmmaker and academic Nina Menkes draws on scores of films through history to present a cinematic essay on film language and gender. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Monika Talarczyk

Nina Menkes

Nina Menkes is an avant-garde American filmmaker who graduated with a degree in film from the University of California w Los Angeles. She has lectured at University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts, Tel Aviv University and the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. Her oeuvre includes eight films that she wrote, directed, and produced and, for many years, her sister Tinka Menkes, was her leading actress, muse and closest associate. Menkes’s films have screened at festivals in Berlin, Sundance, Rotterdam, Locarno as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Filmography

1983 Wielki smutek Zohary / The Great Sadness of Zohara (short)

1986 Magdalena Viraga

1991 Królowa diamentów / Queen of Diamonds

1996 Krwawe dziecię / The Bloody Child

2000 The Crazy Bloody Female Center

2005 Masakra / Massaker / Massacre (co-dir.)

2007 Miłość fantomowa / Phantom Love

2012 Rozpad / Hitparkut / Dissolution

2022 Brainwashed: seks, kamera, władza / Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (doc.)

Cast & Crew

director Nina Menkes
screenplay Nina Menkes
cinematography Shana Hagan
editing Cecily Rhett
music Sharon Farber
cast Nina Menkes, Rhiannon Aarons, Kathleen Antonia, Rosanna Arquette, Lara Dale, Julie Dash, Eliza Hittman, Laura Mulvey i in./and others
producer Nina Menkes, Sandra de Castro Buffington, Maria Giese, Guo Guo, Summer Xinlei Yang
production Menkesfilm
Polish distributor Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty
language English
coloration colour
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