Formally spare but texturally and symbolically sumptuous, the films of Nina Menkes possess a strange magic. Their languorous and sometimes hallucinatory tableaux, ranging from the North African desert of "The Great Sadness of Zohara" (1983) to the gaudy Vegas casino of "Queen of Diamonds" (1991), bristle with the radical alienation of their heroines—summoning the specter of Jeanne Dielman. The four, recently restored films in this selection represent a quartet of sorts, each one starring Menkes’ sister Tinka, a key collaborator and muse.