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Orlando, My Political Biography
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Arts.
- Social sciences.
- Gender identity.
- Homosexuality.
- Documentary films.
- LGBTQ.
- Artists.
- Genre:
- Documentary films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 2023
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2024
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- "Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." Taking Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY-a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. For almost a century, Woolf's eponymous hero(ine) has inspired readers with their gender fluidity as well as their physical and spiritual metamorphoses across a three-hundred-year span. In making his film, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than twenty trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography. Together, they perform interpretations of the novel, weaving into Woolf's narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation. Not content to simply update a groundbreaking work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 2023
- Publisher Number:
- 15370309 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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