“Orlando, the hero, will live from the days of Elizabeth in the 16th century to the present and become a woman halfway through.” This is how Virginia Woolf summarized the content of her masterpiece. When the British author published “Orlando” in 1928, she was passionately in love with Vita Sackville West. Woolf dedicated “Orlando” to the garden designer and writer from an old aristocratic family and wrote: “I have lived in you all these months - when I come out, what are you really like? Did I make you up? “In 1992, Sally Potter adapted the book into a lavish costume drama with a star-studded cast. Tilda Swinton shines in it as the androgynous Orlando, Quentin Crisp, the British icon of early gay emancipation, plays Elizabeth I in a parade role, and Jimmy Somerville (“Don't Leave Me This Way”) makes a literally angelic appearance with his falsetto voice. Hardly any other film has brought the gender discourse to the screen with so much light-footed irony and so much poetic charm.

Loan of the film print with kind support of HfG Karlsruhe.

Abstract but obvious musical notation in which palm trees dance - precisely the Washingtonia filifera, the only native American fan palm, friend and provider of the indigenous peoples of North America. Amy Halpern's film captures the gentle waves of wind and light that sweep through the leaves of the palms. Nature, music and dance merge into an almost tangible symphony that transports us to another world - unobtrusive but mesmerizing.

Loan of the film print with kind support of LightCone.