About
Nina Menkes graduated with an MFA in film production from UCLA in 1989, has received Fulbright Research Awards to the Middle East and is a member of the film faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. Her films have screened at international festivals including Sundance, Cannes (ACID), Rotterdam, Locarno and Toronto. Her documentary Massaker, for which she was also cinematographer, premiered at the Berlinale and won the FIPRESCI Award. Her 1996 feature film The Bloody Child was selected as one of the best films of the past fifty years by the Vienna International Film Festival in Austria.
Filmography
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power2022 · Director, Producer
Dissolution2010 · Director, Writer, Editor
Phantom Love2007 · Director, Editor
Water Spell2007 · Thanks
Untitled #12006 · Director
Massacre2005 · Co-Director, Director of Photography
The Bloody Child1996 · Director
Queen of Diamonds1991 · Editor, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
Magdalena Viraga1986 · Director, Cinematography, Producer
The Great Sadness of Zohara1983 · Director
A Soft Warrior1981 · Director