| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Tinka Menkes |
| Event |
Originally produced by Arbelos Films in 1991. |
| Summary |
QUEEN OF DIAMONDS follows the alienated life of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes), a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world unfolds as a fragmented but hypnotic interplay between repetition and repressed anger. Shot with a beautiful compositional rigor echoing Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS is a remarkable and demanding masterpiece of American independent filmmaking. Heralded as one of the most challenging and subversive filmmakers working today, the re-release of QUEEN OF DIAMONDS marks the start of a new critical recognition for Menkes’ groundbreaking body of work. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at **Sundance Film Festival**. *"[Menkes’] provocative and visually arresting art films hover between experimental and narrative, fearlessly exploring the alienated feminine, the subconscious and violent patriarchal outer realities..." - Selina Robertson, **Sight & Sound*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Drama.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Menkes, Nina, film director.
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Menkes, Tinka, actor.
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Arbelos Films (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
7138433 Kanopy |
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