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Welcome to the site of designer and media artist Nathan Ruyle. This space is currently will be undergoing a redesign. Projects have outpaced documentation. Please check back soon.

Press and Awards:

Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Drexciya wins Best Experimental Short at the Guanajuato International Film Festival

Natasha Mendonca’s Jan Villa wins best film (Ken Burns Award) at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and best short film (Tiger Award) at International Film Festival Rotterdam.

“One of the year’s top five films.” -Barbara Wurm on Dissolution, Sight and Sound

Engrossing, visually acute and intensely personal filmmaking....gradually building up international critical support.

-Variety on Dissolution

“‘Dissolution’ is intuitive and rhythmic, and its images, camera movements and assemblage achieve a quality of perfection. This sense of poetic beauty is crucial to keeping a portrait of despair enthralling rather than depressing...a kind of existential film noir”

-LA Times on Dissolution

“Menkes is fond of slow, steady zooms but her attention to the psychological possibilities of sound may be the more affecting characteristic. A typical passage, finding her glum protagonist sharpening a knife, clank-whissh, clank-whissh to the beat of a metronome, followed by the gratified intake of a cigarette’s smoke, is highly stylized but a keen indicator of the terrible act he intends to commit.” -newcityfilm.com on Dissolution

Collected press for Nina Menkes’ Dissolution