In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, the first novel in which the main character changes sex in the middle of the story. A century later, trans writer and activist Paul B. Preciado decides to send a film letter to Virginia Woolf: her Orlando has come out of her fiction and is living a life she could have never imagined. Preciado organises a casting and gathers 26 contemporary trans and non-binary people, from 8 to 70 years old, who come to play Woolf’s fictional character while also narrating their own lives; and a series of mid twentieth century trans archives that evoke the real historical Orlandos in their struggle for recognition and visibility. A poetic journey where fiction and non-fiction, life, writing, theory, and metaphor intertwine seamlessly. The screening is followed by a discussion with the DoP Victor Zébo.
After graduating in philosophy at University Paris 8 and cinema at ENS Louis Lumière (Paris) and ENERC (Buenos Aires), Victor Zébo has worked as a cinematographer (DOP) in the fields of cinema (fiction and documentary) and contemporary art since 2010. He collaborates with a whole generation of artists working to break down barriers between industrial cinema and contemporary art, and to think of new ways of producing moving pictures. He has worked, for example, with artists such as Ivan Argote, Neil Beloufa, Julie Béna, Gaëlle Choisne, Cindy Coutant, Arnaud et Bertrand Dezoteux, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Fabien Giraud et Raphaël Siboni, Clarisse Hahn, Louise Hervé et Clovis Maillet, Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Randa Maroufi, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, directors Lila Pinell and Malaury Eloi, dancer François Chaignaud, choreographer Eric Mink Cuong Castaing, and philosopher Paul B. Preciado. He organizes exhibitions and events in French Guiana with the Guyane Art Factory and is developing a program of residencies for filmmakers in Cayenne. He is often invited to various workshops and talks in art schools (Paris, Strasbourg, Cergy, Bordeaux, etc.). In 2019, he created the lighting scenography for the exhibition »Infantia (1984-7231)« by artists Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni at IAC-Villeurbanne (France).
https://www.filmsdupoisson.com/orlando
Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit dem Filmclub des Master Film der HSLU DFK
