Trained in philosophy at Harvard under Stanley Cavell before the cinema at AFI, Malick’s slim oeuvre foregrounds this inheritance: each of his four features to date is a period piece of American history; each trains an eye on the natural world (and its relationship with humans and human technologie

Atmospheric, Beautiful , Chance, Citational, Contemplative, Dreamy, Ebullient, Elegant, Event, Feminine, Figurative, Fleeting, Flux, Hypnotic, Illusive, Joyful, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Polychromatic, Primal, Quiet, Rhythmic, Self-reflection, Silence, Smart, Sprawling, Sublime, Tragic, Tranquil, Violent, Visceral

“For me, cinema is sorcery, a creative way to interact with the world in order to rearrange perception and expand consciousness, both the viewers and my own” --Nina Called “Brilliant, one of the most provocative artists in film today” by The Los Angeles Times, Nina Menkes synthesizes inn

Dreamy, Experimental, Feminist, Hallucinatory, Hypnotic, Intense, Pioneering, Spiritual, Surreal