Nina Menkes

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Nina Menkes graduated with an MFA in film production from UCLA in 1989, has received Fulbright Research Awards to the Middle East and is a member of the film faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. Her films have screened at international festivals including Sundance, Cannes (ACID), Rotterdam, Locarno and Toronto. Her documentary Massaker, for which she was also cinematographer, premiered at the Berlinale and won the FIPRESCI Award. Her 1996 feature film The Bloody Child was selected as one of the best films of the past fifty years by the Vienna International Film Festival in Austria.

Most Popular Nina Menkes Trailers

Total trailers found: 12

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Trailer (2022)

21 October 2022

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.

Massacre Trailer (2005)

16 February 2005

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

The Bloody Child Trailer (1996)

26 October 1996

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.

Untitled #1 Trailer (2006)

19 January 2006

A small girl's nightmare. Untitled No.1 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmaker Nina Menkes).

A Soft Warrior Trailer (1981)

01 February 1981

Nina's first collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes, the film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka, and also expresses how art is a transformative response to life.

Magdalena Viraga Trailer (1986)

14 May 1986

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.

Phantom Love Trailer (2007)

19 January 2007

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

Queen of Diamonds Trailer (1991)

11 October 1991

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

Dissolution Trailer (2010)

08 July 2010

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.

No Mercy Trailer (2026)

27 February 2026

From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934-2018), the director poses a question: is cinema made by women really tougher, more violent? Seeking answers, she talks to great contemporary filmmakers like Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, Alice Diop, Céline Sciamma, Ana Lily Amirpour, and Monika Treut, among others.

The Great Sadness of Zohara Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

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

Water Spell Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure.