Free Screening: Orlando, My Political Biography

Name: Free Screening: Orlando, My Political Biography
Start: 2025-04-25T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 4200 54th Ave S (Miller Auditorium), Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33711

Schedule

Fri, 25 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

4200 54th Ave S (Miller Auditorium), Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33711 | Saint Petersburg, FL

Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the award-winning documentary, Orlando: My Political Biography, as a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. 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.
Directed by Paul B. Preciado (France, French with English Subtitles, 102 min, 2023