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

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.

analyticaleye-openingreflectivesoberingconversationalinformativethought-provoking

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)

Trailer

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