Based in Los Angeles and trained at UCLA's film school, Nina Menkes has made five feature films in 26 years, all of them appropriating Hollywood genres — noir, horror, procedurals — as raw matter for wildly nonlinear works dedicated to scrambling conventional narrative logic and gender politics. "Nina Menkes: Cinema as Sorcery," opening Saturday at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater, is the first nearly comprehensive retrospective of Menkes' independently produced, largely... More >>>