Dr. Dani SanchezJun 18, 2024
And now our feature presentation: Sally Potter’s “Orlando” (1992) starring Queer androgynous polyamorous actress Tilda Swinton
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 18, 2024
Legendary Gay Transgender writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp plays Queen Elizabeth I. He discusses the film here (https://youtu.be/-ZxBxZExQj0?si=B4xbViItvCqydw2N)
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Quentin Crisp discusses Orlando.

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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 18, 2024
“Orlando” (1992) is based on the book “Orlando: A Biography” by Queer British feminist writer Virginia Woolf. You can read the book for free here (https://archive.org/details/orlandobiography0000virg/mode/2up) or on your library’s Libby App and listen to the audiobook here (https://youtu.be/tGuzvNYFjfE?si=ODG6sQteaM-wIEPo)
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Orlando a biography : Virginia Woolf : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Essentially “Orlando” is an absolutely mesmerizing exploration of gender, of love & intimacy and of self w/r/t/ the queer experience. You can read an oral history of the film here (https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/orlando)
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Orlando

Orlando: An Oral History

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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 18, 2024
I keep coming back to Princess Sasha (Charlotte Valandrey) saying “We must wait for the ice to melt and then we must leave”. Waiting for the claustrophobic rigidity of society to fall away in order to achieve freedom, to achieve their escape.
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