Nina Menkes in Conversation BFI QampA

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Filmmaker and cinematic feminist pioneer Nina Menkes, who's new documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power analyses the male gaze in cinema, visits the BFI Southbank to discuss her latest thought-provoking work, as well as her wide-ranging career. • Across a four-decade career, Menkes has established herself as one of most original voices in American independent filmmaking. Often working in collaboration with her actor sister Tinka, Menkes takes recognisable noirish plots – a soldier murders his wife, a sex worker kills her pimp – and translates them into enigmatic riddles, driven by dream logic and populated by ghosts. • There are echoes of Tarkovsky and Akerman in her minimal dialogue, hypnotic long takes and dense sound design, but Menkes’ point of view, firmly rooted in contemporary USA and Israeli politics, is distinctly her own. • Always provocative, the most consistent theme spanning all of Menkes’ work is an unflinching critique of the insidious male violence that underpins a patriarchal society. • Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI • Claim an extended BFI Player Subscription free trial (UK only) - subscribe using code BFIYOUTUBE: http://theb.fi/player-subscription • Watch more on BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/ • Our TikTok: / britishfilminstitute • Like us on Facebook: / britishfilminstitute • Follow us on Instagram: / britishfilminstitute • Follow us on Twitter: / bfi

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