Tinka Menkes

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Days of Pentecost
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Days of Pentecost

Jan 01, 1995

Days of Pentecost
1995 75 min 1 vues
Days of Pentecost is a feature-length drag action/adventure musical road movie. Inspired by Russ Meyer's 60's exploitation classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, wherein three busty go-go dancers revolt against patriarchal oppression under the hot desert sun.
Music
Queen of Diamonds
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Queen of Diamonds

Oct 11, 1991

Queen of Diamonds
1991 77 min 10 vues
Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world unfolds as a fragmented interplay between repetition and repressed anger.
Drama
Magdalena Viraga
6.3

Magdalena Viraga

May 14, 1986

Magdalena Viraga
1986 91 min 6 vues
Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.
Drama
The Bloody Child
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The Bloody Child

Oct 26, 1996

The Bloody Child
1996 85 min 8 vues
This film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave.
Drama
Aves
5.5

Aves

Dec 31, 1998

Aves
1998 7 min 4 vues
A stop-motion menagerie of birds illuminate a nun’s spiritual ecstasy and terror in this experimental animated work set to the music of Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen.
Drama
A Soft Warrior
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A Soft Warrior

Feb 01, 1981

A Soft Warrior
1981 11 min 1 vues
Nina's first collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes, the film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka, and also expresses how art is a transformative response to life.
Queen of Diamonds
5

Queen of Diamonds

Oct 11, 1991

Queen of Diamonds
1991 77 min 10 vues
Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world unfolds as a fragmented interplay between repetition and repressed anger.
Drama