Cathode Cinema presents: Freak Orlando

Resident postmodern feminist auteur of the German New Wave, Ulrike Ottinger, outdid herself in 1981 with this deeply surreal and playful “adaptation” of sorts from the Virginia Woolf novel Orlando, told in five chapters that explore subversive themes in a kaleidoscopic, eye candy circus of imagery and dialogue.

Certainly not the easiest film to give a plot synopsis for but the “official” plot description (from Ottingers website) describes it as thus:

“In the form of a “small theater of the world”,
a history of the world from its beginnings to our day,
including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness,
the cruelty and the commonplace,
in a story of five episodes”

Really what we are trying to say here is you just need to see it!

Presented in a stunning new 2K restoration, this long out of print film (and many times bootlegged on VHS for years) is something you won’t forget!

Preceded by a 15 minute pre show of all things surreal, queer and more!

Don’t miss this rare theatrical presentation!