SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes screens from this Friday until Sunday, at 7:00 p.m., ‘Orlando, my political biography’ (Orlando, ma biographie politique, 2023), the directorial debut of philosopher Paul B. Preciado.
The film, which is shown in its original version in Spanish and French with Spanish subtitles, could be seen at the Berlinale where it won four awards, including the Special Jury Prize in the Encounters section and the Teddy Award for Best Documentary, becoming as well as the most awarded film of the contest.
In this film, Paul B. Preciado adapts Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel (Orlando: A Biography) into a collective biography that celebrates the survival and fight for freedom of trans and non-binary people. Council.
Displacing the traditional binaries between documentary and fiction, the film is a letter from Paul B. Preciado to Virginia Woolf in which the philosopher tells the English writer what happened to Orlando, the trans character in his novel, in the last century.
Told in the first person by Paul’s unique voice and embodied by 26 trans and non-binary people – aged between 8 and 70 -, Orlando’s story unfolds little by little through a kaleidoscope of experiences that, in a Going back and forth between the fictionalized story of Orlando and the real lives of the ‘Orlandos’ of the story, they explore gender transition not only as a mere production of identity, but as a transformative journey, a movement of disidentification and a practice of invention of freedom.
With references to the underground queer cinema of Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Jesús Garay and Ashley Hans Scheirl, ‘Orlando, my political biography’ is a love letter dedicated to all those trans and non-binary people who put their lives at risk every day. when facing the laws, the unilaterality of history and the dogmas of psychiatry, in addition to religious traditionalism or the power of the pharmaceutical sector.
