Orlando, My Political Biography

Milwaukee Premiere!

For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of identity and transition. Not content to simply update a seminal work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the continuing struggle against anti-trans ideologies and in the fight for global trans rights.

(Paul B. Preciado, France, French & English w/ English subs, 98min, 2023, DCP)

Free for members (Includes UWM students) $5 admission for all others. You can inquire about a membership at the Union Cinema.