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 | Subject: The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983)  Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:02 pm | |
|  IMDBIn October 2008 i had the chance to follow a "Werkschau" of all movies from Nina Menkes. For her first Movie from 1983, i wrote this little review.- Spoiler:
This movie is the first real approach of Nina Menkes to show detachment and alienation.
The Movie has many layers of emotions, the sound, the images, the environment, the people and Tinka Menkes. The Book of Job guides us, connects us, try's to explain what is happening in the images. We always watch, we are always the voyeur and we never participate, we never have a voice. The Camera is always passive but interested and fascinated. The Camera is impersonating us, we don't have a choice, we can just watch what is going on. The City's and Landscapes, Morocco, a constant traveling, by train, by ship, next scene, next place. The people of the places, in the city, they are always included, they are the contrast, the force, the rule and the border around Zohara (Tinka Menkes).
Zohara, with short hairs, colored blue, always changing, sometimes forced into the world, wearing the traditional clothes. She gets hurt, is escaping and running away, free and open in the desert, in the river. Hiding in the shadow, hiding from the sun and the people.
It is hard to judge or rate this Movie. It is such a personal Work of Nina and her Sister Tinka, the documentary aspect only allows us to accept the movie as "real".
Even so, the movie is much more then a documentary, the voices, the alienation and detachment of Zohara, the experimental and emotional approach - in the hole, this movie is transporting what Nina Menkes want's to tell us.
So listen to the silent girls.
-- Occam, Berlin, Oct 2008
 There is a small Trailer on her Website. | |
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Chrisy
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| | Subject: Re: The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983) Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:09 pm | |
| Since this is a short, I will move this one to the short part
Is it a docu? | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983) Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:13 pm | |
| Not really a short, not really a full length movie. Not really a documentation, more experimental. There is some voice from the off, but not talking from the actors.
That's why i like it so much, it does not fit anywhere :-)
...but feel free to move it around, i don't mind. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983) Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:26 pm | |
| We have a part for experimental shorts so I will move it there Thanks for the tip (again  ) | |
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