Virginia Woolf‘s “Orlando: A Biography” is a centuries-spanning tale of a nobleman who, after a slumber that runs through several nights, metamorphoses into a woman. Inspired by and dedicated to Woolf ...
Virginia Woolf’s fantastical 1928 feminist novel “Orlando: A Biography,” inspired by her lover Vita Sackville-West, charts 300 years of an invented life that starts as a boy’s and changes into a woman ...
On Friday, Jan. 31, “Orlando: My Political Biography” was screened at the Ruby’s Film Theater as part of Duke’s annual French Film Festival. The film premiered at the 73rd Berlin International Film ...
“Someone once asked me, ‘Why don’t you write your biography?’ I replied, ‘Because fucking Virginia Woolf wrote my biography in 1928.’” So muses director Paul B. Preciado at the start of his ...
Director Paul B. Preciado took an activist approach to moviemaking, which helped his documentary become as fluid as "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf. The film begins with Preciado searching for ...
Exclusive: One of the most awarded documentaries of the year is a playful cinematic essay that centers the trans experience on Woolf's groundbreaking novel. Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A ...
Orlando’s transformation happens without much fuss. The eponymous hero of Virgina Woolf’s novel went to sleep as a man and woke up, a week later, a woman. “No human being, since the world began, has ...
Woe betide the critic trying to take notes at a screening of “Orlando, My Political Biography.” It would require the stenographic skills of a court reporter to do justice to this essay-film, written ...
Virginia Woolf, a pioneering modernist writer, revolutionized narrative with her stream-of-consciousness technique, exploring ...
Filmmaker Paul B. Preciado’s literate ode to the many Orlandos who walk the world is playful, urgent and brilliantly innovative in its way of exploring transgender identity. Virginia Woolf‘s “Orlando: ...