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Digital Restoration

featuring

Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins, Eddie Constantine,

“Virginia Woolf meets the German camp underground in this extravaganza of performance art and oddity” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). “A cross-breeding, time-skipping fantasy with outrageous masquerade, Ottinger’s five garishly costumed tales recount a history of the world involving the Spanish Inquisition, traveling entertainers, Greek mythology, assorted bodily oddities, and general carnivalesque intrigue. The formidable Magdalena Montezuma stars as the intrepid traveler in all the shapeshifting and gender-bending tales. Reworking Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Tod Browning’s Freaks, feminist pioneer Ottinger invents a colorful, boundary-busting theater of human difference and transformation. This very rarely screened film also features Delphine Seyrig, Eddie Constantine, and Jackie Raynal” (Film Society of Lincoln Center).

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Ulrike Ottinger
Cinematographer
  • Ulrike Ottinger
Language
  • German
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 126 mins
Source
  • Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art