WINNER-BEST DRAMA in ISRAELI CINEMA-Jerusalem International Film Fest 2010. Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, "Dissolution"combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal B&W realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot in Yafo (the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv), the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption, of a young, morose Israeli Jew, played brilliantly by DIDI FIRE.

A surreal psychodrama about a young woman trapped within a suffocating family, Phantom Love is a powerful evocation of one woman’s descent into self. “Not since Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies has black-and-white looked so stunning and mesmerizing... radical and beautiful, pure cinema- one of the year’s best films!!”
-VARIETY

An experimental documentary feature, shot and co-created by Nina Menkes. This film explores brutal violence through in-depth interviews with six mass murderers, who participated personally in the 1982 Sabra and Shatilla massacre in Beirut, Lebanon. FIPRESCI Prize, Berlinale 2005. Please write for details.

This film was inspired by a real event—a US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave. A mesmerizing look at the desolation of violence. “One of the year’s best films from one of my favorite filmmakers.”
-Gus Van Sant

Filmed on location in Las Vegas, QUEEN revolves around the life of an alienated blackjack dealer. Starring Tinka Menkes as the intense, damaged dealer, the film was named one of the Year’s Ten Best by the Los Angeles Times and Film Comment. “QUEEN OF DIAMONDS may become for America in the 90’s what JEANNE DIELMAN was for Europe in the 70’s—a cult classic using a rigorous visual composition to penetrate the innermost recesses of the soul.”
-Berenice Reynaud

Shot in East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute, imprisoned for killing her pimp. Winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for “Best Independent/Experimental Film of the Year”, MAGDALENA was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial and in over 40 other int’l film festivals.

Shot on location in Israel and North Africa, the film traces the solitary, mystical journey of a Jewish girl (Tinka Menkes), who leaves Jerusalem for Arab lands. ZOHARA won awards at the San Francisco and Houston International Film Festivals and was named "One of the Decade's Best Films" by director Allison Anders.

Made at the UCLA Film School, this was Nina’s first cinematic collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes. The film documents a serious illness suffered by Tinka as experienced by her sister Nina. In the movie, Tinka plays Nina—not for the last time. One of the top projects made at UCLA ,also presented at FILMEX ‘81."One of the Year's best Films"
-Mike Plante, SENSES OF CINEMA

An interactive world containing recontextualized fragments from each one of Menkes’s five films, each one starring her sister Tinka Menkes as a deeply alienated woman in powerful resistance against harsh, inhospitable landscapes. “Combining the bold visual language and aesthetic rigor of independent film at its best with the interactivity of new media, the CDROM enables players to draw from a reservoir of deeply connected images and to re-edit them freely.”
-Marsha Kinder, USC School of Cinematic Arts