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A singular voice in American filmmaking for over forty years, Nina Menkes and her confrontational films still feel ahead of their time. Her work sits in direct rebuke to the Hollywood power structure, elevating themes of female subjectivity and isolation, alienated labor, misogynist violence, and the landscape of the American West. With echoes of Chantal Akerman, Menkes’ unflinching feminist, leftist films made their mark on modernist filmmakers of the last two decades.
Presented here in new restorations, this comprehensive retrospective includes runs of two of Menkes’ rarely screened films, Magdalena Viraga and the 2021 New York Film Festival selection The Bloody Child.