bodies trapped in ice: queer adaptation, iteration, and Sally Potter's Orlando

bodies trapped in ice: queer adaptation, iteration, and Sally Potter's Orlando
Friday, February 9, 6:00pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway

Pulling from their Queer Film Classics volume, Sheaffer's talk examines Sally Potter's perennially and progressively queer adaptation of Virgina Woolf's Orlando (1928).  Although Potter's Orlando (1992) moves away from Woolf's investment in the titular character's same-sex relationships, this talk argues that Potter's film has become continually queerer since its release over twenty years ago.  The film's articulation of embodiment, desire and time, alongside audiences' iterative engagement with the film, has cemented Potter's work as a contemporary and ever-evolving "Queer Film Classic."

Dr. Russell Sheaffer is a visual artist, producer, and Assistant Professor of Cinema at Palomar College.  He received a Ph.D. from the Department of Communication & Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was an archival fellow at the Kinsey Institute for Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.  He produced Josephine Decker’s Thou Wast Mild & Lovely (which Richard Brody named the fourth “best film of the century so far” for the New Yorker), Daniel Laabs’ Jules of Light and Dark (which won the grand jury prizes at NewFest and Outfest), and Student Academy Award winner Georden West’s feature debut Playland (which premiered at IFFR and Tribeca Festival).

Free and open to the public. RSVP required.