BERLIN : Philosopher Paul B. Preciado did not want to make a film about his own gender transition, because British novelist Virginia Woolf had already done so a century before.'Orlando: My Political Biography', Preciado's playful debut film, explores the struggles of trans and binary people through Woolf'
BERLIN : Philosopher Paul B. Preciado did not want to make a film about his own gender transition, because British novelist Virginia Woolf had already done so a century before.
"The way we present trans people through films is by destroying them through their image. I didn't want to go into that tradition, but I didn't want to go into the victim setting either," Preciado said of his film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday. In Preciado's film, 25 French-speaking trans and non-binary actors play Orlando, blending recited passages from the book with their own first-person accounts in a modernist shift of perspective that recalls Woolf's own experimentation.
"It's a crucial lifelong battle because for many transition people there's the impossibility of being recognised publicly, socially and politically," he said."It means not having an identity card with your name, not being able to have a bank account."
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