The Edison Public Library invites you to a showing of Paul B. Preciado’s documentary, Orlando: My Political Biography.
The 2023 French film, which is based on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel, fashions a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. It will be shown at the Main Library on Monday, June 23, at 6:00pm.
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 300-year span. In making his film, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than 20 trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography. Together, they performed interpretations of the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation. Preciado’s documentary also interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide.
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