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Presented by Eos World Fund: Based on her cinematic presentation, ‘Sex and Power: the Visual Language of Cinema’, Menkes’s acclaimed documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power uses film clips by A-list directors from 1896 through to the present, to show how sexist shot design contributes to a pervasive environment of sexual harassment and assault, as well as employment discrimination against women, especially in the film industry.

Brainwashed screened at Sundance Film Festival 2022 and Berlin International Film Festival 2022. Kino Lorber is distributing Brainwashed nationwide starting in October, 2022.

“This system of shot design disempowers women, ties into the epidemic of sexual harassment and assault as well as the employment discrimination we face… and I call it the bedrock language of rape culture.”

– Nina Menkes