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Title:
Orlando, My Political Biography [digital video].
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Publication Date:
2023
2024
Publication Information:
The Criterion Collection, 2023.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Abstract:
"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.
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Title from title frames.
Film
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Language:
English
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Electronic Access:
A Kanopy streaming video Access immediately on Kanopy