• Oriana
  • Oriana
  • Mouth to Mouth

Oriana

Recorded Conversation

  • Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and a professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s first feature film, Oriana, “entwines the linguistic structure of Monique Wittig’s iconic 1969 feminist novel Les Guérillères with the material and conceptual ground of the Caribbean. It visualizes the ecstatic potential of a near-future, non-binary world order through the struggles of its protagonists to imagine a new sort of sensorium—an autonomous language of post-colonial and post-patriarchal society” (EMPAC). Filming in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, Santiago Muñoz collaborated with a cast of Caribbean musicians, poets, artists, and performers.

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 78 mins
Source
  • Sociedad del Tiempo Libre
Preceded By

Staten Island

Vivienne Dick, United States, 1978

A low budget sci-fi short film that was originally intended to be part of a longer collaborative work to be made by a group of women called Les Guérillères.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 5 mins
source
  • LUX Distribution

Mouth to Mouth

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, United States, 1975

A meditation on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s mother tongue.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • B&W
  • Digital
  • 8 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
Additional Info
  • English and Korean text