Nina Menkes
American independent filmmaker of Queen of Diamonds and Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power.
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- Nina Menkes is an American independent filmmaker whose films include The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Magdalena Viraga (1986), Queen of Diamonds (1991), The Bloody Child (1996), Phantom Love (2007), Dissolution (2010) and Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022); her sister Tinka acts in many of them.
- Born in Ann Arbor and raised in Berkeley, she has taught at the California Institute of the Arts from 1990.
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- Education
- BA, University of California, Berkeley (1977); MFA, UCLA (1989)1
- Films
- The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983); Magdalena Viraga (1986); Queen of Diamonds (1991); The Bloody Child (1996); Phantom Love (2007); Dissolution (2010); Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)1
- Teaching
- California Institute of the Arts, from 19901
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