Orlando, My Political Biography
Essential...funny, intellectually provocative, and, finally, deeply moving.
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Orlando, My Political Biography
"Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point, academic virtuoso-turned-filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the documentary Orlando: My Political Biography as a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto which premiered and took home four prizes at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of identity and transition. Not content to simply update a seminal work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the continuing struggle against anti-trans ideologies and in the fight for global trans rights.
Genre
Documentary,
LGBTQ+,
Literary Adaptation
Runtime
98
Language
French,
English,
Spanish
Director
Paul B Preciado
Cast
Oscar-Roza Miller,
Janis Sahraoui,
Liz Christin
Awards:
Winner, Teddy Award ~ Best Documentary Film, Berlin International Film Festival
Winner, Encounters Award, Berlin International Film Festival
Nominee, Sebastiane Award ~ Best Film, San Sebastián International Film Festival
MOREPlayed at
Claremont 5 11.17.23 - 11.21.23
Royal 11.17.23 - 11.23.23
Town Center 5 11.17.23 - 11.21.23
Glendale 11.24.23 - 11.30.23
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