This is the second time where I’ve seen a Nina Menkes film, loved it, but didn’t know exactly what to make of it. Phantom Love blends together a lot of aspects of Menkes’ previous films for a stunning new story that is dense and weighted, jumping between space and time to tell its story and playing with our preconceived notions of the imagery we see. The relationship between images isn’t clear at first glance - I still am trying to make sense of it all - but the themes of familial abuse, marginalization, suffering under capitalism, etc. is incredible. This is something that I’m going to have to revisit at some time. The surreality of it is just fantastic.
This is the second time where I’ve seen a Nina Menkes film, loved it, but didn’t know exactly what to make of it. Phantom Love blends together a lot of aspects of Menkes’ previous films for a stunning new story that is dense and weighted, jumping between space and time to tell its story and playing with our preconceived notions of the imagery we see. The relationship between images isn’t clear at first glance - I still am trying to make sense of it all - but the themes of familial abuse, marginalization, suffering under capitalism, etc. is incredible. This is something that I’m going to have to revisit at some time. The surreality of it is just fantastic.
