Nina Menkes
The filmmaker works with material that was created twenty years ago during a trip to India, and which is now seeing the light of day after all. From her own found footage emerges, hypnotically, the image of the lioness - entirely in keeping with this edition of the Viennale.
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.
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
A surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.
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).
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.
Revolves around the life of an alienated blackjack dealer. The film examines the desolation of daytime Vegas.
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.
A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.
