Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Nina Menkes
Brainwashed is based on director Nina Menkes’s cinematic presentation, Sex and Power, the Visual Language of Cinema, that uses film clips by A-list directors from the 1940s through to the present, to show how the visual grammar of cinema contributes to conditions that create discriminatory hiring practice, pay inequity and a pervasive environment of sexual harassment in the film industry and beyond.
PremiĂšre nationale
STARRING
WRITER
Nina Menkes
DIRECTOR
Nina Menkes
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Shana Hagan
ASC
FILM EDITING
Cecily Rhett
MUSIC
Sharon Farber
PRODUCTION
Nina Menkes
Tim Disney
Susan Disney Lord
Abigail Disney
DISTRIBUTION
Cinephil
Nina Menkes
Considered a cinematic feminist pioneer and one of Americaâs foremost independent filmmakers, Menkes has shown widely in major international film festivals including multiple premieres at Sundance, the Berlinale, Cannes (ACID), Rotterdam, Locarno, Toronto, La Cinematheque Francaise, British Film Institute, Whitney Museum of American Art, MOMA in New York, MOCA and LACMA in LA.
FILMOGRAPHY
1983 : THE GREAT SADNESS OF ZOHARA (SHORT)
1986 : MAGDALENA VIRAGA (FEATURE)
1991 : QUEEN OF DIAMONDS (SHORT)
1996 : THE BLOODY CHILD (FEATURE)
2000 : THE CRAZY BLOODY FEMALE CENTER (FEATURE)
2005 : MASSAKER (FEATURE)
2007 : PHANTOM LOVE (FEATURE)
2012 : DISSOLUTION (FEATURE)
2022 : BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER (FEATURE)