TUE NOV 21, 2023 10:00 PM

ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include the $2.00 online booking fee.

Los Feliz 3 | Limited Engagement

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  • RELEASED IN: 2023
  • 98 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: PAUL B. PRECIADO

ABOUT THE FILM:

In French with English subtitles. 

“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.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sideshow/Janus Films

COUNTRY: France