Nina Menkes – MRQE

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

Queen of Diamonds

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

The Bloody Child

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This film was inspired by a real eventa 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.

Magdalena Viraga

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 Great Sadness of Zohara

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

Dissolution

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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