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Name
  
Nina Menkes

Role
  
Filmmaker

Siblings
  
Tinka Menkes


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Education
  
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (1987)

Movies
  
Phantom Love, The Bloody Child, Dissolution, The Great Sadness of Zohara, Massaker, Lunchfilm

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Similar People
  
Lokman Slim, Juliette Marquis, Cam Archer, Marek Rozenbaum, Michael Huffington

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Nina Menkes is an experimental film maker. Her films include The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Magdalena Viraga (1986), Queen of Diamonds (1991), The Bloody Child (1996), Phantom Love (2007) and Dissolution (2010), which was filmed in black and white and is set in Israel. Her sister Tinka appears as an actress in many of them. Menkes teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, California. She has donated copies of several of her works to the Academy Film Archive.

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Films

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Films by Menkes include:

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  • A Soft Warrior (1981)
  • The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983)
  • Magdalena Viraga (1986)
  • Queen of Diamonds (1991)
  • The Bloody Child (1996)
  • Massacre (Massaker) (2005) Camera, with co-directors Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim, Hermann Theissen
  • Phantom Love (2007)
  • Dissolution (Hitparkut) (2010)
  • Awards

    Nina Menkes Menkesfilm Yes I am a Witch

    In addition to being nominated for a number of awards, she has won the following:

    Nina Menkes Menkesfilm Yes I am a Witch

  • 1986, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award for Magdalena Viraga
  • 2005, Berlin International Film Festival, FIPRESCI Prize for Panorama for Massaker
  • 2007, World Film Festival of Bangkok, Special Jury Prize for Phantom Love
  • 2010, Jerusalem Film Festival, Anat Pirchi Award for Best Drama for Hitparkut
  • References

    Nina Menkes Wikipedia


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