SCREEN SLATE: Nina Menkes On The Process Of Discovery

The personification of American independent auteurism, Nina Menkes has stamped every frame of her work with an unmistakable signature that collides inward-gazing dream logic against the violence of painfully real contemporary landscapes. Now, thirty-five years into an uncompromising career, several of her films are receiving overdue restorations, and three of her five features — Queen of Diamonds (1991), Phantom Love (2007) and Dissolution (2010) — as well as the short The Sadness of Zohara (1986) are now streaming on the Criterion Channel. Menkes recently spoke with Screen Slate about her singular approach to filmmaking, the restoration process, and her continued experiments with cinematic language.

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