Paul B. Preciado

11.09.1970, Burgos, Spain

 

Director
Photo: Olaf Kosinsky (CC BY-SA 3.0 de)

A writer, philosopher, curator, and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and body politics. Among his different assignments, he has been Curator of Public Programs of documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens), Curator of the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice in 2019, and Head of Research of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). His books, Counter-sexual Manifesto (Columbia University Press); Testo Junkie (The Feminist Press); Pornotopia (Zone Books); An Apartment in Uranus (Semiotexte and Fitzcarraldo), and Can the Monster Speak (Semiotexte and Fitzcarraldo), and Dysphoria Mundi (Grasset, Graywolf and Fitzcarraldo) are a key reference to queer, trans and non-binary contemporary art and activism. He was born in Spain and lives in Paris.

Filmography


Films by this director

Orlando, My Political Biography

(Orlando, ma biographie politique, France, 2023)

Directed by: Paul B. Preciado
PHOTOGRAPHY: Victor Zébo
Synopsis:

Gotovo stoljeće nakon što je Virginia Woolf objavila svoj roman Orlando: životopis, filozof i trans aktivist Paul B. Preciado piše joj pismo u kojem joj poručuje da je njezin lik postao stvaran. Preciado postavlja pitanje: “Tko su suvremeni Orlando?” 25 transrodnih i nebinarnih osoba različitih dobi utjelovljuje slavni Woolfin lik, istovremeno pričajući priče o vlastitim životima. Osobne priče su pak ispresjecane arhivskim materijalima koji prizivaju stvarne povijesne...

color, 98′
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