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The Bloody Child
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (76 min.)
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles Arbelos Films 2023
- Summary:
- Nina Menkes's third feature is a visionary deconstruction of the war film, a fragmentary and hallucinatory investigation into the psychic currents that converge around a single moment. Drawn from a Los Angeles Times article, The Bloody Child centers on a Gulf War veteran who is arrested in the Mojave Desert while digging a grave for his wife, whom he has apparently murdered. What follows is an achronological succession of fragments: of time, of the man's interiority, and of the culture shared by his fellow soldiers. Featuring a cast that includes Menkes's sister Tinka and real-life servicemen, The Bloody Child is a haunting meditation on violence and its consequences upon the interiorities of those who enact it on behalf of the state.
- Participant:
- Tinka Menkes.
- Credits:
- Nina Menkes, filmmaker
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen
- OCLC:
- 1402188473
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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