I curated an exhibition of experimental film at the ICA London a long time ago. I’ve also curated film festivals quite regularly. Discussions of gender are so prevalent now, more so than when you did the film “Orlando.” Did that naturally lead you back to this story? I think that’s the Trojan horse of “Orlando”-ness — both the film, but more important the book — is that it’s all about gender-bending. I propose hypothetically that had Virginia Woolf continued this book for another thousand pages, Orlando could easily have turned into a mouse.

Source: New York Times May 22, 2019 14:01 UTC