Cynthia Madansky Movies

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

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

A silent film portraying winter across three continents.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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