(Super-8/11 min/1981)
Made at the UCLA Film School, this was Nina’s first cinematic collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes. The film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka as experienced by her sister Nina. In the movie, Tinka plays Nina—not for the last time. A SOFT WARRIOR was selected as one of the top first projects made at UCLA that year, and was also presented at FILMEX, and many other Super 8 festivals.