Nina Menkes

[1]: 202 [2]: 82  Her films include The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Magdalena Viraga (1986), Queen of Diamonds (1991), The Bloody Child (1996), "Massacre (Massaker)" (2005), Phantom Love (2007), Dissolution (2010), and Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022).

[4] Menkes was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan[2]: 82  to European Jewish parents who fled Nazi persecution as children.

[15][16] Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power premiered at the Sundance Film Festival,[13][17] and has been shown at Berlinale[15]

She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992,[2]: 82 [22] and in 1993 was an artist-in-residence in Berlin under the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

[2]: 82 She has been nominated for a number of awards, and has won: Two of Menkes' films—Magdalena Viraga and Queen of Diamonds—have been preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in 2012 and 2019, respectively.