ORLANDO, MA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE
FRA 2023 | 98 min. | Director: Paul B. Preciado

Series "Documentary Fiction"

In Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando, published in 1928, a young man traveling through the centuries ends up becoming a woman. For transgender activist Paul B. Preciado, the Orlando character conceals the reality and utopia of non-binary bodies. He addresses Virginia Woolf in the form of a letter and, alongside numerous Orlandos, embarks on a poetic journey in which literary and social reality merge seamlessly. A thoroughly non-binary essay that is as clever as it is imaginative, a political manifesto, a re-reading of the novel and a pleasurable counter-project to prevailing narratives about trans people all in one.