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Dissolution as part of Nina Menkes Retrospective
03/09/2012 - 03/16/2012 at
Anthology Film Archives -
New York
NINA MENKES FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
March 9-16
“In the 25 years since her first feature…Nina Menkes has remained one of the few American directors whose feature films – in both form and thought – are genuinely radical. Menkes’s main preoccupation across her six [feature] films…is violence in all its forms, and her approach, oblique yet intuitive, has yielded results that have more to say
on the subject than any American director since Peckinpah or Cassavetes.” –Phil
Coldiron, LA WEEKLY
on the subject than any American director since Peckinpah or Cassavetes.” –Phil
Coldiron, LA WEEKLY
To celebrate the release of her sixth feature film, DISSOLUTION, we are pleased to present this comprehensive retrospective devoted to independent filmmaker Nina Menkes, whose films comprise one of the most haunting and impressive bodies of work in contemporary narrative cinema. Anchored by daily screenings of the new film, an unusual take on Dostoyevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, the series encompasses all of her feature films, as well as two shorter works.
For the full schedule of the rertospective:
Press:
2010, 88 minutes, video, b&w.
Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Menkes’s most recent film combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black-and-white realism to explore the condition of violence
that 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.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Menkes’s most recent film combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black-and-white realism to explore the condition of violence
that 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.
–Friday, March 9 at 7:00,
Saturday, March 10 at 4:30,
Sunday, March 11 at 3:00,
Monday and Tuesday, March 12 & 13 at 7:00,
Wednesday and Thursday, March 14 & 15 at 9:00.
Venue
32 Second Avenue
10003
New York
NY
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