Saturday     14:30
The Chopin House
2025, 9 min., French/English

Director: Jenny Oyallon-Koloski

This videographic essay re-edits Jacques Demy’s Parking (1985) to better understand its relationship to contemporary music and Franco-American queer cinema. Working counterfactually with an eclectic corpus of media, Imagining Orphée uses what we know about Demy’s craft practices to videographically wonder how the past could have been different.

Jenny Oyallon-Koloski is an assistant professor of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She uses videographic methods to study the history of figure movement on screen, genre conventions, and Franco-American musicals.