SALLY POTTER PRESENTS "ORLANDO" AND JOINS A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH ULRIKE OTTINGER AND PAUL B. PRECIADO
Virginia Woolf is an author who has been championed, translated, debated and reinterpreted by various feminist and queer trends. Her work preserves something that can be reappropriated, an echo that connects with experiences of generations that she never knew. From Quim/Quima by Maria Aurèlia Capmany in the early seventies to more recent theatrical adaptations, it seems that there is always just a little more to be squeezed from Orlando, a new look at his life story. A hundred years after this novel was published, we recover the three film adaptations that have been made of it. In the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, three filmmakers brought Orlando to the cinema; in each version, the character’s transgression takes its own unexpected forms.
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