display.Video function seems broken when passed `filename` argument
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Description
Calling (assuming the file `animation.m4v` exists locally) `Video("animation.m4v")` works just fine:

but if I try to pass either explicitly the `filename` argument or the `data` one, as per the docs, I get errors. This for `filename`:
```
Video(filename="animation.m4v")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 Video(filename="animation.m4v")
~/local/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/IPython/core/display.py in __init__(self, data, url, filename, embed, mimetype, width, height)
1362 url = data
1363 data = None
-> 1364 elif os.path.exists(data):
1365 filename = data
1366 data = None
~/local/conda/lib/python3.7/genericpath.py in exists(path)
17 """Test whether a path exists. Returns False for broken symbolic links"""
18 try:
---> 19 os.stat(path)
20 except OSError:
21 return False
TypeError: stat: path should be string, bytes, os.PathLike or integer, not NoneType
```
and this for `data` (granted, I'm not sure if I should be doing some unicode handling here, but the docstring says bytes OR strings are OK, so I assumed this was fine:
```
Video(data=open("animation.m4v", "rb").read())
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 Video(data=open("animation.m4v", "rb").read())
~/local/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/IPython/core/display.py in __init__(self, data, url, filename, embed, mimetype, width, height)
1362 url = data
1363 data = None
-> 1364 elif os.path.exists(data):
1365 filename = data
1366 data = None
~/local/conda/lib/python3.7/genericpath.py in exists(path)
17 """Test whether a path exists. Returns False for broken symbolic links"""
18 try:
---> 19 os.stat(path)
20 except OSError:
21 return False
ValueError: stat: embedded null character in path
```
@Carreau, happy to try to fix this so I have a bit of code in IPython after so many years :)
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