{"product_id":"orlando-my-political-biography-dvd","title":"Orlando, My Political Biography (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LpGFplNRUmc?si=Sx7I5jWjxOeAqGf0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOrlando: A Biography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOrlando, My Political Biography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOrlando\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\" data-feature-title-field=\"\"\u003eINCLUDES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-features-list\" data-special-features-field=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMeet the Filmmakers,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ea new interview with director Paul B. Preciado\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unobstructed View","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43476713144520,"sku":"CCJF020DVD","price":32.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/files\/orlandomypoliticlbiographydvd.jpg?v=1712704798","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/orlando-my-political-biography-dvd","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}