A Soft Warrior (1981) +

DIR.:
Nina Menkes (5 films)
TRT:
11 min
MPAA Rating:
NR
DISTRIBUTOR:
menkesfilm
SYNOPSIS:

Made at the UCLA Film School, this was Nina's first cinematic collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes. The film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka as experienced by her sister Nina.


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FULL SYNOPSIS

A Soft Warrior

(Super-8/11 min/1981)

Made at the UCLA Film School, this was Nina?s first cinematic collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes. The film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka as experienced by her sister Nina, and also expresses how art is a transformative response to life. In the movie, Tinka plays Nina?not for the last time. A SOFT WARRIOR was selected as one of the top first projects made at UCLA that year, and was also presented at FILMEX, and many other Super 8 festivals.

CAST & CREW

  • Producer(s): Nina Menkes
  • Writer(s): Nina Menkes
  • Actor(s): Tinak Menkes, Irene Bowers

GENRES

Experimental , Short Subject

SUBJECTS

Disease

EXTERNAL LINKS

Nina Menkes Official Site

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