Orlando, My Political Biography

(Orlando, ma biographie politique)

In Conversation

  • Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LGBTQ+ cinema.

  • Susan Stryker, PhD, is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, codirector of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, and coeditor of the multi-volume Transgender Studies readers.

  • Ellis Martin is an archivist working in cultural heritage digitization. He edited We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan alongside Zach Ozma.

featuring

Arthur, Emma Avena, Amir Baylly, Jenny Bel’Air,

In this dynamic film debut, well-known Spanish trans philosopher Paul B. Preciado utilizes Virginia Woolf’s seminal gender-changing novel Orlando as a vehicle to reflect on trans identity, experience, culture, and history. Shifting imaginatively from narrative sequences to talking head reflections to delightfully innovative combinations of both (and neither), this philosophical, playful, and deeply affirming transmasc essay film explores bold new possibilities in cinematic form. Along with other recent ambitious trans filmmaking like Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker and Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow, Orlando, My Political Biography has been hailed as spearheading a “New Trans Cinema.”

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Paul B. Preciado
Based On
  • Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography

Cinematographer
  • Victor Zébo
Language
  • French
  • English
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 102 mins
Source
  • Janus Films

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