Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

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Shoshana S @shoshana.scott Dec 11 This film is a complex, grueling, and important watch, it highlights all the ways our movie industry has directly affected the way we view women. The documentary by Nina Menkes shows the audience how many movies even to this day dehumanize women, making them look like objects without covering up anything. Her perspective and story telling on the topic is very clear and enticing in the film and she has good intentions with all the clips she shows even if some are hard to watch. She really shows the good and bad of Hollywood. See more Lily B @LButchers Dec 11 This film is an absolute eye-opener! It truly changed how I watch movies and think about how our media affects our culture. It's chilling, disturbing, and heartbreaking, but for all the right reasons. The male gaze is ruining representation for women, and sexualizing women in film needs to stop! See more Grace B @gracebrunetti Dec 11 This film explores the visual aspects of film, examining how lighting and camera movement can either amplify or conceal a shot or a movie’s misogynistic qualities. As a filmmaker, this informed my approach to creating shots and how they can be perceived by an audience. One thing I found meaningful in the documentary is how Nina Menkes explored multiple types of shots from diverse films and intricately explained why each of them could lead to misogynistic themes, while also suggesting ways to modify these shots to avoid those themes. Overall, I really appreciated this documentary and would recommend it to any filmmaker. See more Zahra K @zahrak Dec 7 This documentary made me reexamine everything that I knew about female characters in film and television. Through filmic examples over the years, the filmmakers highlight the ways that a camera looks at women, how women are written, and how women are percieved in the media. This documentary does a great job in breaking down how specific composition elements, from lighting to cinematography to editing, are used to portray women in a way that is easy to understand, especially if you know little about filmmaking. Furthermore, this documentary makes sure the audience understands that the portayal of women in film affects women in society by sharing statistics and factual research about sexual assult and women in the workplace. Overall, this is an exeptionally well-rounded and educating film that I urge everyone to explore, as it is thought-provoking and significant. It's a meaningful film because it serves as a form of feminism, but in a unique and engaging way. See more Gwyn V 03/14/2024 This is easily one of, if not the most, important documentary about filmmaking. This film truly deprogrammed my brain. It opened my eyes to how films enter our psyche and perpetuate ideas about the world. Watching this should be a prerequisite for all people entering the industry. See more Rosanna E 02/10/2023 Thought provoking film at the intersection of time, place and space. Nina Menkes "nails it" prodding us to nudge the male gaze with a finger on our pulse! See more Read all reviews

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