Opening at London's BFI Southbank on December 2 with the premiere of a digitally-remastered ORLANDO and onstage conversation between Sally Potter and Tilda Swinton, the season will include all Sally's feature films, documentaries and shorts, as well a selection of her experimental early works.
Sexy, witty and provocative, Potter's adaptation of ORLANDO turned Virginia Woolf's most spirited novel, called 'the longest love letter in English literature', into a reinvention of heritage cinema that dazzled audiences and critics from the Venice Film Festival to Rolling Stone. Tilda Swinton's feted performance as Orlando, the time-traveling, gender-switching hero/ine, became a touchstone for a new era of cinematic and political sexual and gender liberation.
The screening will be followed by an onstage conversation between Sally Potter and Tilda Swinton, also available globally via live interactive web cast on sallypotter.com from 8.30 pm UK time. Viewers will have an opportunity to participate by asking questions live via Twitter.
SP-ARK: OPENING SALLY POTTER’S ARCHIVE
AFTERNOON EVENT SHOWCASING POTTERS GROUNDBREAKING DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Wed 2 Dec 14:30 BFI Southbank
SP-ARK is a unique new resource, making Sally Potter's rich archive of production materials available in a collaborative online environment to inspire scholarship with a global community of learners. Join Sally Potter, SP-ARK's creators, academics from Queen Mary University and students of her work for an afternoon exploring the Orlando archive, and the potential of this pioneering project to revolutionise the way we access cinema's related collections.
