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MONDAY, OCT 23 | 7:15 PM | BB
*Winner -Special Jury Award Encounters Section, Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film, Special Jury Mention Documentary Award – 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.
Writer, philosopher, and now filmmaker, Paul B. Preciado’s newest work is poetic in form and function. Hybridizing literary adaptation with modes of fiction and nonfiction filmmaking, Preciado uses Virginia Woolf’s 1928 century-spanning, gender-bending romance, Orlando: A Biography, as a template for the modern trans experience. Interlacing passages from the novel with contemporary testimonies, including the filmmaker’s own, the film fashions its focus on “gender poets,” those whose lives transcend the bounds of binary expression. Preciado’s cast of contemporary Orlandos offer intimate access and playful insight into their experiences with hormones, gender-affirming care, institutional erasure, and the political positioning of trans-people subjected to a normative regime. No two stories are the same, and, yet, somehow Woolf’s fantastical biography contains them all. ~TW