ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY

France
2023

Director: Paul B. Preciado

Language: French with English subtitles

In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, the first novel in which the main character changes sex in the middle of the story. A century later, trans writer and activist Paul B. Preciado decides to send a film letter to Virginia Woolf. Her Orlando has come out of her fiction and is living a life she could have never imagined. Preciado organises a casting and gathers 26 contemporary trans and non-binary people, from eight to 70 years old, who embody Orlando.

Screenings

26 July | 17:00 | Suncoast 8
29 July | 12:15 | Suncoast 7

Credits

Director

Paul B. Preciado

Producer

Yaël Fogiel, Laetitia Gonzalez, Annie Ohayon-Dekel, Farid Rezkhallah

Screenplay

Paul B. Preciado

Cinematography

Victor Zebo

Cast

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Runtime

98 min

Paul B. Preciado

Paul B. Preciado is a writer, philosopher, curator, and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and body politics. Among his different assignments, he has been Curator of Public Programmes of documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens), Curator of the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice in 2019, and Head of Research of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). His books, Counter-sexual Manifesto (Columbia University Press), Testo Junkie (The Feminist Press), Pornotopia (Zone Books), An Apartment in Uranus (Semiotexte and Fitzcarraldo), Can the Monster Speak (Semiotexte and Fitzcarraldo), and Dysphoria Mundi (Grasset, Graywolf and Fitzcarraldo) are key references to queer, trans and non-binary contemporary art and activism. He was born in Spain and lives in Paris.
DIFF 2023

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