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- Considered a cinematic feminist pioneer and one of America’s foremost independent filmmakers, Menkes has shown widely in major international film festivals including multiple premieres at Sundance, the Berlinale, Cannes, Rotterdam, Locarno, Toronto, La Cinematheque Francaise, British Film Institute, Whitney Museum of American Art and The New York Film Festival.
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May 27, 2022 · In Queen of Diamonds, there’s a long sequence where the main character, a blackjack dealer, played by my sister, actress and longtime creative collaborator Tinka Menkes, is inside the casino, working. We’re with her for a full 17 minutes (which is half a real work shift at the tables in Las Vegas).
May 10, 2023 · A punk cipher of feminine rage and resistance, and a defiant performer with an astounding physical presence, Tinka is the magnetic centre of Menkes’s early films through to The Bloody Child (1996). In The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Tinka plays an Orthodox Jewish woman on a journey to the other side.
May 2, 2023 · Tinka stars as the marine sergeant investigating the brutal case of a marine who has allegedly murdered his wife. It juxtaposes fragments of events leading up to the crime with the grim interrogation of the suspect, culminating in a visceral meditation on the ambiguity of violence.
Menkes, who produces, directs, and shoots all of her films, instead credits herself and her sister Tinka Menkes as co-conceivers and co-editors. Tinka Menkes also stars in her sister’s films and her performances lend them a unique form of slow-burning intensity.
Oct 5, 2023 · Nina Menkes’ cinematic language is defined by singularity. Operating outside conceived notions of what a feminist gaze or a body of work defined for a particular spectator should be, she has been making radical experiments with the camera since she attended UCLA Film School in the 1980s.
For many years, Menkes worked closely with her sister Tinka Menkes, who was both her actress and creative collaborator, and Nina credits Tinka for many of the key radical aspects of their work. Menkes was one of the first women to present a feature film at the Sundance Film Festival (QUEEN OF DIAMONDS, 1991 in dramatic
Apr 25, 2019 · Starring her sister and frequent lead Tinka Menkes as Firdaus, an adrift and alienated blackjack dealer in Las Vegas, the film proceeds in deceptively complex, elliptical fashion befitting its disenchanted protagonist.
