Sun 28 May - Wed 31 May 2023 | Promo codes can be applied at checkout
Sun 28 May - Wed 31 May 2023 | Promo codes can be applied at checkout

108 mins – United States 2022 – Documentary – Dir: Nina Menkes
Featuring: Rhiannon Aarons, Kathleen Antonia and Rosanna Arquette

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is a mesmerising visual journey through cinema’s sexist bloodstream that will forever change the way you see and make films.

Based on her acclaimed talk “Sex & Power: The Visual Language of Cinema”, director Nina Menkes compels the casual moviegoer and cinephile alike to confront how the visual language of cinema is used to disempower women at the most fundamental level.

Using more than 175 film clips from canonical Hollywood favourites and cult classics as well as interviews with filmmakers and scholars, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power reveals a sinister framework of misogyny and paternalism that, from early cinema to the present day, infiltrates some of our favourite movies.

Sun 28 May
2pm
Mon 29 May
6pm
Tues 30 May
6pm
Wed 31 May
6pm
A bracing blast of critical rigour, taking a clear, cool look at the unexamined assumptions behind what we see on the screen.
The Guardian
A bracing blast of critical rigour, taking a clear, cool look at the unexamined assumptions behind what we see on the screen.
The Guardian
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