Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

2022 · 107 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 221 VOTES · DIR. Nina Menkes

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power poster

Overview

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,406 lines

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00:00:50 As a filmmaker and as a woman,
00:06:29 We'd like a statement from you...
00:09:43 What's less well known is how shot design itself
00:14:37 how they're assembled and ordered in a sequence of shots.
00:18:38 to female self hatred and insecurity in a way
00:22:19 So I would just, kind of toss it out.
00:26:03 the impact on a gut level of seeing a film like this,
00:30:49 as having a certain power,
00:34:24 on one side of the pool,
00:38:10 Once the transition to sound takes place,
00:41:48 in that case and I locked them there.
00:45:28 and I was like, "oh, did I have to communicate with you,
00:49:21 or whatever.
00:54:32 objectifying women, then there's a problem.
00:59:38 for an extended sequence.
01:04:16 I've never had to think about how she feels
01:07:24 And she appears at the end of the scene
01:13:13 One of the people
01:16:33 and give this man a blowjob."
01:21:21 Here, she's playing a highly alienated prostitute.
01:25:52 It's not only for cis women,
01:30:34 what someone else is clamoring for, let's say.
01:36:57 things don't change unless you force change.
01:43:30 of that experience as translated into a shot.

Cast & Characters

Nina Menkes Self
Rosanna Arquette Self
Penelope Spheeris Self
Catherine Hardwicke Self
Julie Dash Self
Sheila Frazier Self
Joey Soloway Self
Eliza Hittman Self
Laura Mulvey Self
Hugh Jackman (archive footage)

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,406
Dialogue density13.1 lines / min
First line00:00:50
Final line01:43:30

Production Record

DirectorNina Menkes
LanguageEnglish
Revenue$28,826
IMDb votes221

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