Jean Cocteau's Le Testament d'Orphée Screens at Cinema Godard, Fondazione Prada

On May 21 at 8:30 PM, Fondazione Prada's Cinema Godard will screen Jean Cocteau's 1960 film Le Testament d'Orphée. The screening is tied to the exhibition The Second Shadow. Dozie Kanu Mirroring Marc Camille Chaimowicz, curated by Rita Selvaggio with support from Giulia Civardi, on view at Fondazione ICA Milano until May 23. In 2003, during Chaimowicz's first installation of Jean Cocteau… (2003–2014) at Norwich Gallery, the film was projected as an integral part of the work—not merely a screening but a threshold, an entry condition, a device of passage. The exhibition explores slippages, echoes, and refractions between Kanu and Chaimowicz's practices, creating a space inhabited by presences that transit among objects, sounds, images, and memories. Cocteau described the film as a 'documentary of unreal facts,' a place where apparitions slowly crack reality from within. The screening invites viewers to enter an image that already knows its own survival.