I am delighted to announce that The Visitor has been selected for the Berlinale, Panorama section. I produced and co-wrote the movie (with my dear friend Alex Babboni). I was also scouting manager, casting director and 1st AD. In other words, a movie to which I devoted my heart and soul.

The consistently inventive and subversive Bruce La Bruce directed/wrote it. And a/political are the production company behind it.

The Visitor is a reimagining of Pasolini’s Theorem (1968), almost entirely set in London. A hyperpolitical and provocative fantasy drama, which uses real sex as a weapon for liberation (as Bruce does in most of his films). Refugees, aliens, Winston Churchill, Katie Hopkins, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jeremy Corbyn – they are all in the story in one way or another.

This project started with a photoshoot and an interview with Bruce for Doesn’t Exist Magazine in 2022, in Antwerp. It then snowballed into something much bigger as Alex (the Magazine publisher) and I introduced Bruce to a/political, a visceral arts organisation with which I share progressive values and a transgressive world vision. A big thank you to Bruce, Alex and Becky for working as a team and making this happen.

The date of the premiere will be announced on February 6th. Hope to see as many of you as possible in Berlin!