Experimental, low-budget, indie feminist filmmaker Nina Menkes creates dreamlike films about lonely people on the fringes of society who can't catch a break but somehow persist.
Nina Menkes is one of those filmmakers you'll either love or hate depending on your level of patience and penchant for bleak, plotless imagery. She makes independent, experimental low-budget films that exist far outside the mainstream. Even during the indie film boom of the '90s, she
Vibe:
Dark af. This movie exists in a world where nothing good happens.
Best time to watch:
When you feel like cranking your bad mood to an 11 by emerging yourself in something bleaker than the bleakest thing you can imagine (the impending Trump presidency, a world without cats, etc.
