VALENTINA AND THE MAGIC LANTERN

She is the definitive icon of 1960s European cool. Erotic, independent, stylish, fetishistic and always in the right place at the right time, she is every woman s sexy alter ego. Her creator is the Italian illustrator, Guido Crepax. Valentina lives her life on two fronts, the first as a successful fashion photographer based in Milan, the other as the lead protagonist of erotic sexual fantasies. She is brooding, intelligent, complicated, seductive and perversely attracted to what most frightens her which leads her to invent fabulously exciting sexual experiences. Her libertine fantasies are filled with men, women, costumes, machinery and monsters that all reach beyond fantasy and very often become mixed with reality. Valentina s fantasy world is extraordinary, but her life in the real world is just as enviable. Fiercely independent and with no one to answer to, Valentina becomes a successful photographer which allows her to travel around Europe meeting new people and living out exciting, often glamorous, dangerous and erotic situations among the artistic elite of the 60s.