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  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory.” In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. Using clips from hundreds of movies we all know and love – from Metropolis to Vertigo to Phantom Thread – Menkes convincingly makes the argument t...

Directed By: Nina Menkes

Written By: Nina Menkes

  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 47 m

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

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Summary If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory.” In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. Using clips from hundreds of movies we all know and love – from Metropolis to Vertigo to Phantom Thread – Menkes convincingly makes the argument t...

Directed By: Nina Menkes

Written By: Nina Menkes

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100
Oct 17, 2022
The film is accessible, engrossing, urgent, and horrifying.
By Lena Wilson FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 17, 2022
Brainwashed is a bracing blast of critical rigour, taking a clear, cool look at the unexamined assumptions behind what we see on the screen.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 17, 2022
"Brainwashed" isn't so much of a shocking revelation as it is an eye-opening wake-up call to be more thoughtful about how women are depicted in film and how that translates into our everyday lives.
By Ethan Anderton FULL REVIEW
67
Oct 10, 2022
Criticism can be poetry, but in Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power it is definitely prose, reserving the expressiveness for her own oeuvre.
By David Katz FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 30, 2022
If this film is a jumping off point into more and, quite frankly, better discussions, then I guess it is worth watching?
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40
Oct 20, 2022
Limited to a mere pointing out of which kinds of images are empowering to women and which aren’t, the documentary ultimately does a disservice to the art form, feminist or otherwise.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
25
Oct 21, 2022
In order to do this subject—and these women—justice, there is a need for a clear-eyed reckoning. Unfortunately, “Brainwashed” does not deliver that, instead favoring disingenuous rhetoric and often patently false information to serve its predetermined narrative.
By Marya E. Gates FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Menkesfilm, Eos World Fund
Release Date Oct 21, 2022
Duration 1 h 47 m
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Website https://www.brainwashedmovie.com/
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Alexandria Film Festival, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
The Guardian's Best Films
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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