Pathway: My Default Pathway by Lucille Gaudin

close up of Orlando's face as she sees her reflection in mirror

No difference at all, just a different sex

8x10" black and white photograph of Sasha and Orlando on sledge

It`s really difficult to see the difference of genders in costumes in this picture. The difference between Orlando`s costumes and the other is really thin

8x10" black and white photograph of Orlando in male costume

1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Digital, Film Stills - Scene 45 - (Tilda Swinton) and Twins, in the film

Close up of Orlando's face looking at Shelmerdine as they lay in bed

Her husband look like a girl too in his way of lying in the bed. We dont have any notions of genders. We dont know anymore who is a man who is a woman

close up of Orlando's face leaning over bowl

Transformation of Orlando. Importance of the costume. Before he had fake hair. He removed them as he removed his old skin to have a new one

Orlando lying in bed sleeping, he then wakes, opens his eyes and sits up.

"I can find only three words to describe the female sex", orlando in a new body.

1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Digital, Film Stills - Scene 62 - (Tilda Swinton) and 's Daughter (Jessica Swinton) in the film

Liberation for women now who can make their own choices : The motorcycle is often describes to be for men. Here it`s a woman who drives it

1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Digital, Film Stills - Scene 4 - (Tilda Swinton) in the film

Tilda swinton, androgenius figure. Sally Potter`s casting is interesting in this way : Tilda Swinton is famous for a apperance like a boy -> Orlando is a boy but dominated by female`s desire and aspirations

A4 pages, Paper, Typed notes on Virginia Woolf's ideas about the future for women

1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Digital, Film Stills - Scene 4 - Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp) in the film

"Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacilliation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above" (Orlando, (1990 edition) page 121) Quentin, known for his extravagant style, here appears as if an ultimate version of himself - his true self - Not in becoming a woman, something he never wanted, but to be able to play with traditional views on gender and their aesthetics, exposing both feminine and masculine sides that co-exist within an individual - In the same way it so clearly does in Orlando. Orlando himself are always partially androgynous, but trapped in a strict social system, he is always either or, and can first look feminine when physically being one. When incapable of fulfilling the demands of his masculine side, the feminine takes over, and although his mind remains the same, he is now presented with the restrictions the 'weaker sex' have.

Video file, Digital, Selected Scene Commentary by Sally Potter

This video is about the choices of Sally Potter`s casting and her traitment of genders in Orlando