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Miss Queencake

Amanda Holiday | UK | 1991 | 24' | IFFR 1992

@ Miss Queencake has an artificial style while dream and reality seem to mingle in the film. Holiday herself calls her film a tragi-comic ‘boat movie’. For her, film is a space in which fantasy and reality meet. In this film the ‘space’ is filled with certain memories of youth.

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Film details

Country of production
UK
Year
1991
Festival edition
IFFR 1992
Length
24"
Medium/Format
16mm

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