Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)
- Directed by
- Nina Menkes
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 33 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A documentary about how the way women are filmed in movies reflects and reinforces gender inequality. The director uses many film clips and interviews with female filmmakers to explain how camera angles and shot design can objectify women.
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What happens
Brainwashed is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Nina Menkes. The writer-director "developed her 2017 essay and PowerPoint presentation into a film, examining the biased ways in which women are represented onscreen versus men." Using clips from hundreds of movies (including her own fictional films), Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design; she also includes interviews with women and nonbinary artists, film theorists, and scholars (Joey Soloway, Julie Dash, Catherine Hardwicke, Eliza Hittman and Laura Mulvey), who discuss "the exploitative effects of the male gaze." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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