Orlando| Tilda Swinton as Orlando journeys through 400 years of history without ageing and changes gender

ORLANDO is a bold, unsentimental re-working of Virgina Woolfs classic novel in which an innocent aristocrat journeys through 400 years of English history – first as a man, then as a woman.

“Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old…”

Live is too short and time too precious to waste watching a bad movie again. Orlando was one of the first art house film I’ve seen in a Theatre back in 1992 and to date the only one I’ve seen in Theatre three times and many times since.

 

In the Finale Orlando is seeing crying tears of joy. She is finally content with life and her child.

“Same person. No difference at all… just a different sex…”

 

Sally Potter, Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, composer, actress.

 

Tilda Swinton, Artist.

    

COLLISION|Douglas Wilson and Christopher Hitchens’s documentary

 

COLLISION carves a new path in documentary film-making as it pits leading atheist, political journalist and bestselling author Christopher Hitchens against fellow author, satirist and evangelical theologian Douglas Wilson, as they go on the road to exchange blows over the question: “Is Christianity Good for the World?”. The two contrarians laugh, confide and argue, in public and in private, as they journey through three cities. And the film captures it all. The result is a magnetic conflict, a character-driven narrative that sparkles cinematically with a perfect match of arresting personalities and intellectual rivalry.

Sir John Soane’s Museum: ‘A crazy labyrinth of art, architecture and history’ (1753 – 1837)

Sir John Soane’s Museum was formerly the home of the neo-classical architect John Soane. It holds many drawings and models of Soane’s projects and the collections of paintings, drawings and antiquities that he assembled

 

13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP

Paris Lees| Two trans woman in conservation

Laura Jane Grace, singer in Against Me! meets journalist, VICE columnist and transgender activist Paris Lees to discuss meeting on Twitter, hanging out with Springsteen and how fucking cool they both are.

 

 

Paris Lees  is a British journalist, presenter and transgender rights activist. She topped The Independent on Sunday‘s 2013 Pink List, and was awarded the Positive Role Model Award for LGBT in the 2012 National Diversity Awards.

Rankin|Seven Photographs That Changed Fashion

Fashion photographer Rankin recreates seven of his favourite images as he takes a journey through a brief history of the fashion photograph. By re-staging iconic images by Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin, Rankin exposes the ways in which fashion photography uses fantasy and beauty to communicate something about reality.

 

 

 

Rankin, portrait and fashion photographer.

You kill your dream several times, mostly by talking about it

In is truth of any creative endeavour that once the though has occurred the dream fades. You kill it mostly by talking about it, writing it down…

The opening scene in director Rob Marshall’s Nine (2009) is a thinly disguised homage to italian film director Federico Fellini on the creative process and guess a truth for all film makers. It’s a miracle if a dream survives the process of becoming real.

 

 

“You kill your film several times

Mostly by talking about it

A film is a dream

You kill it writing it down

You kill it with a camera

Your film might come to live for a moment or two

When your actors breath live back into it

But then it dies again

Buried in film cans

Mysteriously sometimes in the editing room

A miracle happens when you place one image next to another

So that when finally an audience seats in the dark

If you’re lucky

Very lucky

And sometimes I’ve been lucky

The dream flickers back to life again”