One of American independent cinema’s most sui generis voices, Nina Menkes doesn’t so much direct films as, in her own words, “conjure” them. Imbued with a trancelike power, her cinematic spells combine surrealist imagery that has been compared to David Lynch’s with the hypnotic formal rigor of Ch...
Directed by Nina Menkes • 1983 • Israel, Morocco
Starring Tinka Menkes
A young Jewish woman (Tinka Menkes) leaves Jerusalem and embarks on a solitary, mystical journey through the Arab world in this meditation on spirituality and alienation shot on location in Israel and North Africa.
Directed by Nina Menkes • 1991 • United States
Starring Tinka Menkes, Emmellda Beech
Nina Menkes’s entrancing dream vision of alienation on the margins of Las Vegas is one of the most radical and provocative independent films of the 1990s. Set amid the glittering casino lights and deteriorating ...
Directed by Nina Menkes • 2007 • United States
Starring Marina Shoif, Juliette Marquis, Bobby Naderi
Lensed in stunning black and white, this surreal psychodrama traces the awakening of Lulu (Marina Shoif), an alienated casino worker living in Los Angeles who must navigate complicated relationsh...
Directed by Nina Menkes • 2010 • Israel
Starring Slava Bibergal, Didi Fire, Yohanan Herson
Nina Menkes transposes Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” to Tel Aviv for this hallucinatory exploration of guilt and redemption. Shot in Yafo, the predominantly Arab area of the city, DISSOLUTION center...
Directed by Nina Menkes • 1983 • Israel, Morocco
Starring Tinka Menkes
A young Jewish woman (Tinka Menkes) leaves Jerusalem and embarks on a solitary, mystical journey through the Arab world in this meditation on spirituality and alienation shot on location in Israel and North Africa.
Directed by Nina Menkes • 1991 • United States
Starring Tinka Menkes, Emmellda Beech
Nina Menkes’s entrancing dream vision of alienation on the margins of Las Vegas is one of the most radical and provocative independent films of the 1990s. Set amid the glittering casino lights and deteriorating ...
Directed by Nina Menkes • 2007 • United States
Starring Marina Shoif, Juliette Marquis, Bobby Naderi
Lensed in stunning black and white, this surreal psychodrama traces the awakening of Lulu (Marina Shoif), an alienated casino worker living in Los Angeles who must navigate complicated relationsh...
Directed by Nina Menkes • 2010 • Israel
Starring Slava Bibergal, Didi Fire, Yohanan Herson
Nina Menkes transposes Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” to Tel Aviv for this hallucinatory exploration of guilt and redemption. Shot in Yafo, the predominantly Arab area of the city, DISSOLUTION center...
