“In this film, I shall be playing Orlando, the Virginia Woolf character”: the young LGBTQ+ community members who renowned philosopher and trans rights activist Paul B. Preciado selects for his directorial debut begin their speeches into the camera with an infectious serenity. Truth be told, ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ does not present a series of miraculous appropriations – but a kind of homecoming for this transgressive character of modernist literature, one who defies all claims on the part of the establishment and any recuperation within heteronormative devices. By handing over the stage to young people both in open affirmation and in search of themselves, Preciado generates more than an absolutely necessary political gesture: he turns the camera, in fact, towards his own biography, reflected diagonally, vividly, in solidarity with all these voices that are following in his footsteps. In its flamboyance, in the ecstasy of youth that it cultivates without complication, adopting a pop form that mixes the reenactment, the archival image and the interview in an amicable manner, the film offers a welcome visibility to the radical position of following your own own path. (Victor Morozov)