Cynthia Madansky

Cynthia Madansky

Cynthia Madansky (co-producer, director, writer) is a filmmaker, visual artist, and graphic designer. She recently completed a conceptual art installation entitled "On the Jewish Question." In 1995, she also made two short films: INTERNAL COMBUSTION (distributed by Video Data Bank) in collaboration with Alisa Lebow, and WE AT HER, shown at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and screened at the prestigious Feminale in Cologne, 1996. In 2002, she completed another film, PAST PERFECT which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Madansky is a graduate of the Cooper School of Art, Whitney Independent Study Program, Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and has completed her MFA at the Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University. Her films have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and her other work in East and West Jerusalem, Caracas, Sydney, Paris, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, and NYC.

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Cynthia Madansky Movies

  • 1998
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    Treyf

    Treyf

    1 1998 HD

    TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a...

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  • 2014
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    Tarlabaşı

    Tarlabaşı

    1 2014 HD

    Featuring Turkish dancer Idil Kemer, Cynthia Madansky integrates performances of everyday movements and gestures as a direct response to the...

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  • 2007
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    Elle

    Elle

    1 2007 HD

    Elle is an experimental dance film shot in a semi industrial landscape in Brooklyn reflecting on every day movements of falling and getting up.

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  • 2007
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    Elle

    Elle

    1 2007 HD

    Elle is an experimental dance film shot in a semi industrial landscape in Brooklyn reflecting on every day movements of falling and getting up.

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  • 1994
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    Outlaw

    Outlaw

    1 1994 HD

    A video-verité manifesto made with self-identified gender outlaw, author and activist, Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014). Raw and confrontational,...

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  • 1998
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    Treyf

    Treyf

    1 1998 HD

    TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a...

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  • 1998
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    Treyf

    Treyf

    1 1998 HD

    TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a...

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  • 1998
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    Treyf

    Treyf

    1 1998 HD

    TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a...

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  • 2002
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    Sites Unseen

    Sites Unseen

    1 2002 HD

    Sites Unseen is a 3 channel 16mm projection of the Jewish cemetary in Warsaw, a photograph of a great Aunt who died in Treblinka, and my late...

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  • 1995
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    Internal Combustion

    Internal Combustion

    1 1995 HD

    This experimental video breaks the many silences surrounding lesbians and AIDS. Interweaving the voices of two friends, Internal Combustion reflects...

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  • 2001
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    Ritual by Rote

    Ritual by Rote

    1 2001 HD

    A super 8 projection which references the essay “On the Jewish Question” by Karl Marx.

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  • 2002
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    Past Perfect

    Past Perfect

    1 2002 HD

    “Past Perfect” is a spirited meditation on the elusiveness and inaccessibility of (Jewish) history as conveyed through sightseeing tours...

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  • 1995
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    We At Her

    We At Her

    1 1995 HD

    A story about a woman descending into mental illness.

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  • 2017
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    ḤARĀM

    ḤARĀM

    1 2017 HD

    ḤARAM is an essay film portraying the urgent contemporary situation at the Haram Al Sharif/ Noble Sanctuary in the Old City of Jerusalem reflecting...

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  • 2016
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    VIVA ÁGUA

    VIVA ÁGUA

    1 2016 HD

    VIVA ÁGUA is a meditation on the philosophical work entitled ÁGUA VIVA written by Clarice Lispector in 1973. The film reflects on...

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  • 2015
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    Anna Pina Teresa

    Anna Pina Teresa

    1 2015 HD

    Anna, Pina, Teresa reinterprets the pivotal scene in Rossellini’s “Roma Città Aperta” where Anna Magnani, who plays the...

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  • 2014
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    White Sands

    White Sands

    1 2014 HD

    White Sands is a 3 screen projection 16mm film installation which reflects on the visible and invisible manifestations of the nuclear fuel chain on...

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  • 2015
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    E42

    E42

    1 2015 HD

    E42 is a cinematic exploration of the area in Rome knows as the EUR, a modernist landscape that was originally designated by Mussolini as the the...

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  • 2012
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    1+8

    1+8

    5 2012 HD

    1+8 is a film about Turkey’s unique position between West and East and her relationship to her eight very distinct and diverse neighbors. 1+8...

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  • 2014
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    If Not,

    If Not,

    1 2014 HD

    If Not is a meditation on love, inspired by If Not, Winter by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson. Filmed in Ephesus and Brooklyn.

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  • 2014
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    Dear

    Dear

    1 2014 HD

    Dear features the interior world of two teenage Chinese girls in New York City, whose diary entries reveal their concerns related to growing up as...

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  • 2013
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    1+8 Installation

    1+8 Installation

    1 2013 HD

    1+8 is a dynamic eight-screen video installation about Turkey and her eight neighbors based on the feature film of the same name directed by Cynthia...

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  • 2011
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    Spellbeamed

    Spellbeamed

    1 2011 HD

    “Spellbeamed uses the acts of translation and transcription to amplify the questions: ”what is a score?” and “what kind of...

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  • 2008
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    Minot, North Dakota

    Minot, North Dakota

    1 2008 HD

    The town Minot is home to a U.S. Air Force base that guards 150 nuclear missiles buried in northern North Dakota. The weapons of mass destruction...

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  • 2004
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    Still Life

    Still Life

    1 2004 HD

    Still Life gazes unflinchingly at the violence of war, observing the eerie architecture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip collapsed under Israeli...

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  • 2009
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    Bubble

    Bubble

    1 2009 HD

    Bubble is a short film performed by Zeena Parkins and the Plastic Girls, Eleanor Hullihan and Erin Cornell in a public park in Brooklyn, NY.

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  • 2007
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    Alex & José

    Alex & José

    1 2007 HD

    Alex and José, is a 16mm single channel projection that explores gender, movement and form.

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  • 2007
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    Winter

    Winter

    1 2007 HD

    A silent film portraying winter across three continents.

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  • 2003
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    Devotion

    Devotion

    1 2003 HD

    A sparing and minimal travelogue of Istanbul. A foreigner meditates on the unraveling of a relationship while moving from hotel room to hotel room....

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  • 2005
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    The PSA Project

    The PSA Project

    1 2005 HD

    The PSA Project is a series of 15 videos that speak out against the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the act of war.

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  • 2018
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    KG

    KG

    1 2018 HD

    Subjectively capturing the spirit of contemporary Athens, Madansky turns to Greek anarchist poet Katerina Gogou as a source of inspiration. The...

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  • 2018
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    Wilie and Brewsie

    Wilie and Brewsie

    1 2018 HD

    Shot in the northeast United States landscape, Willie and Brewsie reflects on the contemporary resonances of the last novella written by Gertrude...

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  • 2017
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    GRACE + GRAVITY

    GRACE + GRAVITY

    1 2017 HD

    Grace + Gravity is a choreographed performance that reflects on Simone Weil's poetic and profound writing entitled Gravity and Grace.

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  • 2019
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    Esfir

    Esfir

    1 2019 HD

    A contemporary interpretation of an unrealized script entitled Women, written by Soviet director Esfir Shub.

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  • 2014
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    Dear

    Dear

    1 2014 HD

    Dear features the interior world of two teenage Chinese girls in New York City, whose diary entries reveal their concerns related to growing up as...

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  • 2014
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    White Sands

    White Sands

    1 2014 HD

    White Sands is a 3 screen projection 16mm film installation which reflects on the visible and invisible manifestations of the nuclear fuel chain on...

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  • 2020
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    Kalan / What Remains

    Kalan / What Remains

    1 2020 HD

    Kalan / What Remains is a dance film shot in Istanbul reflecting on excerpts from the novel Kalan by Leyla Erbil.

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  • 2020
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    AA

    AA

    7 2020 HD

    AA is a portrait of the dream diaries of Russian avant garde feminist poet and photographer Anna Alchuk.

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  • 2021
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    Flowers for LH

    Flowers for LH

    1 2021 HD

    Flowers for LH reflects on the last play written by Lorraine Hansberry entitled What Use Are Flowers?

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