Includes Andrea Riseborough in Please Baby Please, new restorations of feminist film pioneer Nina Menkes, and indie maverick Eugene Kotlyarenko

Phantom Cinema: The Films of Nina Menkes

A pioneer of feminist cinema, a visionary artist, and one of the great American independent filmmakers, there’s no shortage of superlatives to describe the one and only Nina Menkes. This month, MUBI presents a six-film retrospective highlighting essential works from her forty year career, presented in brand new restorations. Included here are underseen gems like her groundbreaking portrait exploring the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp, Magdalena Viraga, her hallucinatory underground classic, Queen of Diamonds, her awe inducing masterpiece, The Bloody Child, and more, which, viewed together, help solidify her place as one of the great cinematic radicals  of our time.