Pathway: orlando to orlando by Jeanne le Roux

the process of adapting the essence of orlando from literature to film.

Video file, Digital, Selected Scene Commentary by Sally Potter

- question of gender; what is it to be a man, what is it to be a woman - one character to live the life of both a man and woman - orlando as the anti-hero - fails to be what he is expected to be, as a youth/aristocrat/man/woman - tilda swinton: has the transparency in features and perfomance to play a man, as well as a woman - prior experience and research of playing a male character - difficulty of transferring VW's direct literary address to the reader in the same cinemati sense -- orlando directly speaks to camera - blowing up the essence of a time period - restrictive colour pallet for scenes - nothing is what it seems - answer original question with a touch of lightness and humour

A4 pages, handwritten, Paper, Pre-draft handwritten notes on key scenes

- problems concerning the strength of the female characterisation of orlando vs the male characterisation

1x A4 Black card, 10x A4 Double side printed text and image document, Paper, Cannes Prospectus

- depicting the faces of orlando; gender change and time change

1 x A4 black photograph album; 34 vellum pages; 24 x colour prints, Mixed, Presentation book containing Sally Potter's notes on the film and colour photographs of Tilda Swinton at Hatfield House

- the idea of time; "suspended disbelief"
- "like science fiction time-travel carved in landscape and old stone"
- sexual identity: the idea of an androgynous core -
what we see (essence) dependent on historical era y w.r.t. gender and what is allowed to be revealed

1 x A4 black photograph album; 34 vellum pages; 24 x colour prints, Mixed, Presentation book containing Sally Potter's notes on the film and colour photographs of Tilda Swinton at Hatfield House

- "androgyny and immortality, love, loss and language"
- "visionary feeling" which "makes the book eminently cinematic"; hyperversion of the real

A4 pages, handwritten in pencil, Paper, Handwritten notes on intertitles, with sketches and key quotes

- deconstruction of the timeline/key phrases

- death/rebirth; orlando learns how to die (the conclusion of the film suggests that orlando is ready to die because of child - the idea that the past hinders the present; not accepting an end does not allow a new beginning - immortality in death

1 x A4 black photograph album; 34 vellum pages; 24 x colour prints, Mixed, Presentation book containing Sally Potter's notes on the film and colour photographs of Tilda Swinton at Hatfield House

- "euphoria of freedom from illusory restrictions and limitations" - androgynous counterparts

Video file, Digital, Venice Film Festival Press Conference