Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later / Monique Wittig: Vingt ans après

March 18, 2023

Filmmakers respond to Les Guérillères, Monique Wittig’s 1969 novelfor Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz sets her film in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, while Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames takes place in New York after a “social-democratic war of liberation.” With shorts by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Mouth to Mouth) and Vivienne Dick (Staten Island).

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  • Oriana

    Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
    Puerto Rico, 2022
    Saturday, March 18 4:30 PM

    In Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s most recent film, Monique Wittig’s experimental novel Les Guérillères is transported to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. With shorts by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Mouth to Mouth) and Vivienne Dick (Staten Island).

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  • Born in Flames

    Lizzie Borden
    United States, 1983

    Restored 35mm Print

    Saturday, March 18 7:30 PM
    Lizzie Borden and Mel Y. Chen in Conversation

    “This explosive work offers a speculative, feminist polemic set in a potential future that mirrors both the present in which it was made and ours. . . . [Lizzie] Borden’s fevered 1983 film is absolutely one we should be watching right now” (Yasmina Price, Vulture). 

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