Special Event: Orlando, My Political Biography + Local Short Films/Book Sale CTBA

From the archive

This film was last shown on 19 July 2024

This special screening of Orlando, My Political Biography is accompanied by local LGBTQ+ short films from EDEN Film Productions, discussion, and book sale hosted by Sheffield’s own independent, queer, intersectional feminist book shop Juno Books, featuring the works of Virginia Woolf and Paul B Preciado amongst many more.

There will be an opportunity to double-bill the film with Sally Potter’s adaptation of the novel, Orlando (1992), starring Tilda Swinton.

Screening as part of our Showroom Classics strand, Orlando screens on Friday 19 July at 6pm, and continues throughout the week.

From acclaimed writer and activist Paul B. Preciado, Orlando, My Political Biography is a bold and joyous celebration of trans life, told through the lens of Virginia Woolf's iconic novel.

Woolf's Orlando follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they are a woman. Almost a century after its publication, Preciado claims that fiction has become reality and Orlando's story lies at the root of all contemporary trans and non-binary life.

Told through a myriad trans and non-binary voices living today - our new 'Orlandos' - this documentary offers a dazzling example of how life, poetry and gender can meet in search for truth.