Past event
Sands 24: Orlando, My Political Biography (15) - Pay What You Can £10.00 / £8.00 / £6.00
(Orlando, ma biographie politique)
Deftly weaving fact and fiction, Orlando, My Political Biography uses Virginia Woolf's classic novel to explore gender identity in unique and insightful ways. Leaping through genres including documentary, drama, comedy and musical, we follow more than 20 trans and non-binary interviewees as they each discuss their identities in relation to Woolf's original character of Orlando, a young man who grew up to be a woman.
From tender stories of finding love at a pride parade, to angry rebuttals of casual, structural transphobia, philosopher and author, Paul B. Preciado mirrors Woolf by taking his subjects out of the past, into the present, and then propels them into a future which embraces the full spectrum of gender identity and experience. Hilarious, incendiary and joyful in equal measure, this debut is a truly fresh take on a literary classic.
Dir: Paul B. Preciado | 2023 | France | 15 | 1h 38m
Contains: Talk of transphobia, discrimination
Shown in French with English subtitles