Considered a cinematic feminist pioneer and one of America’s foremost independent filmmakers, Menkes has shown widely in major international film festivals including the Berlinale, Cannes (ACID), Rotterdam, Locarno, Toronto, La Cinematheque Francaise, the British Film Institute, Whitney Museum of American Art, MOMA in New York and the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. BRAINWASHED: Sex-Camera-Power is her fourth feature to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Previous Sundance premieres include QUEEN OF DIAMONDS (1991), THE BLOODY CHILD (1996) and PHANTOM LOVE (2008). She also showed a new media project in the Frontier section, THE CRAZY BLOODY FEMALE CENTER in 2000.
Menkes synthesizes inner dream-worlds with harsh, outer realities. She has been called “Brilliant, one of the most provocative artists in film today” by The Los Angeles Times and her body of work was described as “Controversial, intense and visually stunning” by Sight and Sound.