Orlando, My Political Biography
“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.
Janus Contemporaries releases Blu-ray and DVD editions of first-run films, fresh from theaters, in association with the Criterion Channel.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Paul B. Preciado
- Trailer
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Paul B. Preciado
- Trailer
Cast
- Oscar-Roza Miller
- Orlando
- Janis Sahraoui
- Orlando
- Liz Christin
- Orlando
- Elios Levy
- Orlando
- Victor Marzouk
- Orlando
- Paul B. Preciado
- Orlando
- Kori Ceballos
- Orlando
- Vanasay Khamphommala
- Orlando
- Ruben Rizza
- Orlando
- Julia Postollec
- Orlando
- Amir Baylly
- Orlando
- Naëlle Dariya
- Orlando
- Jenny Bel’Air
- Orlando
- Emma Avena
- Orlando
- Lillie
- Orlando
- Arthur
- Orlando
- Eleonore
- Orlando
- La Bourette
- Orlando
- Noam Iroual
- Orlando
- Iris Crosnier
- Orlando
- Clara Deshayes
- Orlando
- Castiel Emery
- Sasha
- Fréderic Pierrot
- Psychiatrist
- Nathan Callot
- Armory salesman
- Pierre et Gilles
- Doctors
- Tristana Gray Martyr
- Goddess of Hormones
- Le Filip
- Goddess of Gender-Fucking
- Miss Drinks
- Goddess of Insurrection
- Tom Dekel
- Receptionist
- Virginie Despentes
- Judge
- Rilke & Pompom
- Orlando’s dogs
Credits
- Director
- Paul B. Preciado
- Screenplay
- Paul B. Preciado
- Producer
- Yaël Fogiel
- Producer
- Annie Ohayon-Dekel
- Producer
- Laetitia Gonzalez
- Cinematography
- Victor Zebo
- Editing
- Yotam Ben David
- Music
- Clara Deshayes
- Casting
- Naelle Dariya
- Costumes
- Thomas Goudou
- Costumes
- Caroline Spieth
Trailer for Orlando, My Political Biography
