Film

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

5.920221h 47m15Documentary Drama Crime

Age rating: 15
Director: Nina Menkes
Year: 2022

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

Top cast

Nina Menkes

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Rosanna Arquette

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Penelope Spheeris

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Catherine Hardwicke

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Julie Dash

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Sheila Frazier

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Joey Soloway

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Eliza Hittman

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Laura Mulvey

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Hugh Jackman

(archive footage)

Directed by

Nina Menkes

Produced by

Nina Menkes