POWELL AND PRESSBURGER

Dir. Sally Potter
1992 | 94 mins | UK
Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp

ORLANDO is a story of the quest for love, and it is also an ironic dance through English history. Addressing contemporary concerns about gender and identity, the film is remarkably true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf, but it also skilfully adapts the original story to give it a striking, cinematic form. The screenplay is a standard text taught in film schools as a radical and successful adaptation of a classic work. ORLANDO is a bold, unsentimental re-working of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel in which an innocent aristocrat journeys through 400 years of English history first as a man, then as a woman.

This screening will be followed by a talk lead by Keith Lodwick. It is also presented as part of Exeter Phoenix’s Come As You Are festival.

About Keith Lodwick

Keith Lodwick is a writer and film historian based in Devon. He is the former Curator of Theatre and Screen Arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At the V&A, Keith curated Vivien Leigh: Public Faces, Private Lives and was the V&A assistant curator for the major exhibition Hollywood Costume, one of the most successful exhibitions in the museum’s history. Keith is currently curating a series of events for Fashion & Cinema with leading costume designers exploring their work and inspirations. He is also a Board Member for the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter.
www.fashion&cinema.com
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk

About Come As You Are

Come As You Are celebrates the Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Diverse community in Devon & the South West. The festival will take place at Exeter Phoenix on Sun 12 Nov and will include performance, discussion, poetry, art, workshops, comedy and much more.

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Mon 18 Nov | 7.30pm

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