ORIANA
2023, Puerto Rico, DCP, 78 minutes / In Spanish with English subtitles
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s (MFA 1997) films explore the physical and symbolic stories of the Caribbean. In ORIANA, a band of feminist warriors takes refuge in a verdant Puerto Rican landscape. Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria and featuring performances by a group of San Juan–based artists and activists, the film takes inspiration from French writer and theorist Monique Wittig’s radical 1969 novel Les Guérillères. As Muñoz’s characters move through forests, abandoned industrial sites, and colonial ruins, ORIANA visualizes the possibilities for creating a decolonial and feminist world.
GOSILA
2018, Puerto Rico, DCP, 10 minutes / In Spanish with English subtitles
A film about disorder, sense-making from the ground up, slowness, and the work in the days after a hurricane.