McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and the Roxie Theater co-present a rare 35mm screening of "Orlando" (1992) by Sally Potter. The film is screened is conjunction with the exhibition 'Orlando' at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (February 7 - May 2, 2020), guest curated by Tilda Swinton.
Nearly thirty years after its premiere, Sally Potter's bold re-working of Virginia Woolf's classic 1928 novel endures as a remarkable love story and an incisive tour through English history. Orlando is the story of a journey through time and a modern exploration of gender and identity, beginning in the age of Queen Elizabeth I and ending with the speed and noise of the twentieth century. The tale follows the innocent aristocrat, Orlando, played by Tilda Swinton, who is promised a generous fortune by the Queen provided that he "not grow old." Orlando goes on to live for centuries while mysteriously changing genders along the way. Potter's assured direction of Swinton's subtle performance vividly refracts the seismic historical shifts in the tale through Orlando's fluid shifts in gender, as well as in love, war, politics, and poetry. The result is a timeless cinematic achievement that celebrates the spirit, rather than the letter, of Woolf's book.
'Orlando,' the exhibition, presents recent and commissioned photographs that call upon the central themes of Woolf's novel; gender fluidity, limitlessness, and the deep perspective that is earned from a long life. Supported by a selection of artworks from the McEvoy Family Collection, 'Orlando' offers a panoply of colors and tastes that seek to liberate traditions of portraiture in photography from the constructs of prescriptive gender or social norms at a moment when debates around identity and representation have reinvigorated the story's legacy. The exhibition's West Coast debut is presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. It is organized by Aperture, New York.
$13 General Admission * $9 Students/Seniors.
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
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Nearly thirty years after its premiere, Sally Potter's bold re-working of Virginia Woolf's classic 1928 novel endures as a remarkable love story and an incisive tour through English history. Orlando is the story of a journey through time and a modern exploration of gender and identity, beginning in the age of Queen Elizabeth I and ending with the speed and noise of the twentieth century. The tale follows the innocent aristocrat, Orlando, played by Tilda Swinton, who is promised a generous fortune by the Queen provided that he "not grow old." Orlando goes on to live for centuries while mysteriously changing genders along the way. Potter's assured direction of Swinton's subtle performance vividly refracts the seismic historical shifts in the tale through Orlando's fluid shifts in gender, as well as in love, war, politics, and poetry. The result is a timeless cinematic achievement that celebrates the spirit, rather than the letter, of Woolf's book.
'Orlando,' the exhibition, presents recent and commissioned photographs that call upon the central themes of Woolf's novel; gender fluidity, limitlessness, and the deep perspective that is earned from a long life. Supported by a selection of artworks from the McEvoy Family Collection, 'Orlando' offers a panoply of colors and tastes that seek to liberate traditions of portraiture in photography from the constructs of prescriptive gender or social norms at a moment when debates around identity and representation have reinvigorated the story's legacy. The exhibition's West Coast debut is presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. It is organized by Aperture, New York.
$13 General Admission * $9 Students/Seniors.
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and the Roxie Theater co-present a rare 35mm screening of "Orlando" (1992) by Sally Potter. The film is screened is conjunction with the exhibition 'Orlando' at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (February 7 - May 2, 2020), guest curated by Tilda Swinton.
Nearly thirty years after its premiere, Sally Potter's bold re-working of Virginia Woolf's classic 1928 novel endures as a remarkable love story and an incisive tour through English history. Orlando is the story of a journey through time and a modern exploration of gender and identity, beginning in the age of Queen Elizabeth I and ending with the speed and noise of the twentieth century. The tale follows the innocent aristocrat, Orlando, played by Tilda Swinton, who is promised a generous fortune by the Queen provided that he "not grow old." Orlando goes on to live for centuries while mysteriously changing genders along the way. Potter's assured direction of Swinton's subtle performance vividly refracts the seismic historical shifts in the tale through Orlando's fluid shifts in gender, as well as in love, war, politics, and poetry. The result is a timeless cinematic achievement that celebrates the spirit, rather than the letter, of Woolf's book.
'Orlando,' the exhibition, presents recent and commissioned photographs that call upon the central themes of Woolf's novel; gender fluidity, limitlessness, and the deep perspective that is earned from a long life. Supported by a selection of artworks from the McEvoy Family Collection, 'Orlando' offers a panoply of colors and tastes that seek to liberate traditions of portraiture in photography from the constructs of prescriptive gender or social norms at a moment when debates around identity and representation have reinvigorated the story's legacy. The exhibition's West Coast debut is presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. It is organized by Aperture, New York.
$13 General Admission * $9 Students/Seniors.
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
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Nearly thirty years after its premiere, Sally Potter's bold re-working of Virginia Woolf's classic 1928 novel endures as a remarkable love story and an incisive tour through English history. Orlando is the story of a journey through time and a modern exploration of gender and identity, beginning in the age of Queen Elizabeth I and ending with the speed and noise of the twentieth century. The tale follows the innocent aristocrat, Orlando, played by Tilda Swinton, who is promised a generous fortune by the Queen provided that he "not grow old." Orlando goes on to live for centuries while mysteriously changing genders along the way. Potter's assured direction of Swinton's subtle performance vividly refracts the seismic historical shifts in the tale through Orlando's fluid shifts in gender, as well as in love, war, politics, and poetry. The result is a timeless cinematic achievement that celebrates the spirit, rather than the letter, of Woolf's book.
'Orlando,' the exhibition, presents recent and commissioned photographs that call upon the central themes of Woolf's novel; gender fluidity, limitlessness, and the deep perspective that is earned from a long life. Supported by a selection of artworks from the McEvoy Family Collection, 'Orlando' offers a panoply of colors and tastes that seek to liberate traditions of portraiture in photography from the constructs of prescriptive gender or social norms at a moment when debates around identity and representation have reinvigorated the story's legacy. The exhibition's West Coast debut is presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. It is organized by Aperture, New York.
$13 General Admission * $9 Students/Seniors.
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
show less
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