She has worked in various media including Super-8, 16mm, 35mm and lately HD. Her unusual films express time, space, memory and history, through a lens of the present in works that are "an object lesson in the cinematic possibilities standard narrative misses". (Godfrey Cheshire, Variety). Menkes's films have often met with hostility, as she confronts and expresses violence in a radical way, creating and following her own rules. She has referred to herself as a witch, and Dennis Lim, writing in the New York Times, called her a "cinematic sorceress of the self." According to film critic and historian Berenice Reynaud: Read more...