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Queen Kong

Monica Lisa Stambrini

Queer Strategies and Tentacles: “Veneno pa tu piel” Queen Kong
Monica Lisa Stambrini
2016

20 Minutes

Date
January 20-February 2, 2025

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Behind a tree at the bottom of a garden, a smartly-dressed man and woman are trying to have sex. In the distance is the music of a party. But despite her provocative beauty, he can’t get an erection. Irritated, she abruptly disappears into the woods. Listlessly, he follows. The forest is dark and he finds before him not his lover but Queen Kong. He tries to escape, but Queen Kong has no intention of letting the horrified man go until she has had her way with him.

This screening is part of “Veneno pa tu piel”, the sixth chapter of the film program Queer Strategies and Tentacles, curated by Rosa Barotsi and Zairong Xiang, and unfolding in eight chapters between November 25th, 2024 and March 2, 2025, with the films of each chapter streaming for two weeks.

For more information, contact program [​at​] e-flux.com.

Category
Film, Sexuality & Eroticism, LGBTQ+
Subject
Experimental Film
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Monica Lisa Stambrini (USA, 1970) is a filmmaker who graduated from film school in Milan and directs short films, documentaries, videoclips and art-videos. In 2002 her feature film Gasoline (Benzina) was in competition at the Toronto Film Festival and was released in many countries as a lesbian classic. Her documentary on Bernardo Bertolucci Electric Chair – the making of the film Me & You was screened in Venice and Rotterdam Film Festival. She is the foundress of Le Ragazze Del Porno, a collective project of Italian women directors exploring porn in film–and wrote, produced, and directed Queen Kong and ISVN – Io sono Valentina Nappi. Recently her autobiographical documentary Chutzpah something on modesty and shame screened at Biografilm in Bologna, DocLisboa and won best documentary at the Queens World Film Festival 2024. Her last documentary Hold tight Missy! Isabella Ducrot Unlimited premiered at Venice Film Festival 2024 and is now released in theatres in Italy.

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