Cynthia Madansky Movies

1+8 is a film about Turkey’s unique position between West and East and her relationship to her eight very distinct and diverse neighbors. 1+8...

Kalan / What Remains is a dance film shot in Istanbul reflecting on excerpts from the novel Kalan by Leyla Erbil.

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

Alex and José, is a 16mm single channel projection that explores gender, movement and form.

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

Dear features the interior world of two teenage Chinese girls in New York City, whose diary entries reveal their concerns related to growing up as...

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

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.

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

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

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

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.