BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER in Best of Fest at IDFA 2022

Nina Menkes during her In her lecture “Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Oppression”. Still from the documentary BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER.

IDFA, the prestigious Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam presents the Dutch premiere of Nina Menkes’s BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER and selects it for the Best of Fest showcase.

“Drawing on scenes from classics such as Raging Bull and Lost in Translation, as well as cult films including Superfly, Menkes shows how women are systematically filmed differently than men—an example being how framing and lighting are repeatedly used to position women as passive objects of lust. Menkes argues that this persistent approach to representing women in fiction is far from harmless. By connecting the dots between gender discrimination on the work floor and sexual and other forms of violence against women, she reveals the all-too real impact of that ubiquitous portrayal.”

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