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Director: Paul B. Preciado
movie essay
Premiere: 11/11/23
Philosopher and writer Paul B. Preciado enters the cinema with a film that is both the author’s political biography and a free (and indeed personal) adaptation of it. Virginia Woolf’s novel ‘Orlando’. Preciado elaborates on the topic, taking as a starting point the author’s text and his own personal story, which is the first novel in which the main character changes gender in the middle of the story. A great film attempt on transgenderism. To do this, Preciado experiments with texts and images and relies on the power of both, a proposition that is highly relevant to the conversation of the present.
‘Orlando, my political biography’ verbally and visually alternates first-person narrative, reading of Virginia Woolf, and on-camera expression. Good official ideas for representation of diverse trans and non-binary people. people who introduced themselves on camera as Orlando. The a priori complex device works as follows: The brilliance with which Woolf’s novel drags her to the present daythe number of themes these testimonies illuminate, the clarity with which Preciado glosses over the materials of his essay and the poetry of the whole.