Nina Menkes Movies

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...

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault...

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

Hitparkut (Dissolution) combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which...

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

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

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...

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

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...

A short documentary about cinematic gaze featuring interviews with women in the film industry.

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

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...

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...