Orlando (93mins)

Directed by Sally Potter OBE

Join us for a free film screening of Orlando by London-born Film Director Sally Potter in the Library’s beautiful Periodicals Room on Thursday 30 August 2018.

6.00-6.15pm - Entry to film (no entry after 6.15pm) *Complimentary free drink*

6.20-6.30pm - Welcome & film Screening starts

This film was selected for screening to celebrate the pioneering work of Virginia Woolf who features as one of over 50 women pioneers in the Rights for Women: London’s Pioneers in their Own Words exhibition.

Film synopsis:

Orlando is a 1992 British film loosely based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. It was written and directed by London-born Director Sally Potter, who also co-wrote the music for the film (with David Motion).

Women On Film - free film club on the last Thursday of every month, part of Senate House Library’s Rights for Women: London’s Pioneers in their Own Words season

http://rfw18.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk