Orlando (35mm OmU) - Open Air Kino

In the organizer's words:

Director: Sally Potter, France/ Italy/ Great Britain 1992, 90 minutes, 35mm, English
original version with German subtitles, film print from the HfG collection

"Orlando, the hero, will live from the days of Elizabeth in the 16th century to the present and become a woman halfway through." This is how Virginia Woolf summarized the content of her masterpiece. When the British author published "Orlando" in 1928, she was passionately in love with Vita Sackville West. Woolf dedicated "Orlando" to the garden designer and writer from an old aristocratic family and wrote: "I have lived in you all these months - when I come out, what are you really like? Have I invented you?"

In 1992, Sally Potter adapted the book into a lavish costume drama with a star-studded cast. Tilda Swinton shines in it as the androgynous Orlando, Quentin Crisp, the British icon of early gay emancipation, plays Elizabeth I in a parade role, and Jimmy Somerville ("Don't Leave Me This Way") makes a literally angelic appearance with his falsetto voice. Hardly any other film has brought the gender discourse to the screen with so much light-footed irony and so much poetic charm.

In the supporting program: Hula
Director: Amy Halpern
USA 2022, 6 minutes, 16mm, without dialog

Lawn in front of the HfG, Platz der Menschenrechte
Free admission, donation requested

An event in cooperation with the Science Office of the City of Karlsruhe as part of the Effects Festival 2025.

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