Cynthia Madansky Movies

AA is a portrait of the dream diaries of Russian avant garde feminist poet and photographer Anna Alchuk.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A silent film portraying winter across three continents.

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