Cynthia Madansky Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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