Janus Contemporaries To Release Lauded Documentary ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ On Blu-Ray This June

Janus Contemporaries has announced that they will be adding Paul B. Preciado’s acclaimed documentary Orlando, My Political Biography to the collection on Blu-Ray and DVD on June 25, 2024. Preciado organizes a casting and brings together 26 contemporary trans and non-binary people, aged 8 to 70, to bring out Orlando of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography. It had its world premiere at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. Get more details below!

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Synopsis: “Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary Orlando, My Political Biography—a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. 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 three-hundred-year span. In making his film, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than twenty trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography. Together, they perform interpretations of the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation. Not content to simply update a groundbreaking work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide.

Special Features

• Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Paul B. Preciado
• Trailer