Nina Menkes

A Soft Warrior

Nina Menkes

Tinka Menkes

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.

Brainwashed

Nina Menkes

Rosanna Arquette, Penelope Spheeris

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.

Phantom Love

Nina Menkes

Marina Shoif, Juliette Marquis

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

Queen of Diamonds

Nina Menkes

Tinka Menkes, Emmellda Beech

Set amid the glittering casino lights and deteriorating desert landscapes of the oasis city Las Vegas, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS revolves around the disaffected existence of of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes), a blackjack dealer whose world unfolds as a fragmented but hypnotic interplay between repetition and repressed anger.

Dissolution

Nina Menkes

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 Arab area of Tel Aviv), the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption, of a young, morose Israeli Jew, played by Israeli actor Didi Fire

The Great Sadness of Zohara

Nina Menkes

Tinka Menkes

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

Magdalena Viraga

Nina Menkes

Dave Gist, Scott Edmund Lane

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.

The Bloody Child

Nina Menkes

Tinka Menkes, Sherry Sibley

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

Nina Menkes

Halel Dror

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).