Oriana

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
PUERTO RICO | 2022 | DIGITAL | 78 MIN | SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Creases of Time

Lananh Chu
USA | 2023 | Digital | 1 MIN | No Dialogue

Made by recycling old photos and postcards as well as repurposing the panorama technique that is a form of photography in time, Creases of Time connects different aesthetics and modalities of representing time. The animation belongs to a series of videos in which I explore the use of “improper” media to make moving images.

Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (2023). Video Still.
AFK | Screenings

menaced hierarchies: an audio described screening of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s Oriana and Lananh Chu’s Creases of Time

This screening is co-presented with Tangled Arts + Disability.

In Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s feature-length film Oriana, a band of feminist militants takes refuge in a lush Puerto Rican landscape. The film relocates Monique Wittig’s infamous novel Les Guérillères to the island in the wake of Hurricane Maria, where its protagonists work and cook, dance and rest, and prepare for battle amidst abundant tropical vegetation.

Suffused with inexplicable encounters, Oriana unfolds across forests, caves, rivers, and the ruins of industry and colonial infrastructure abandoned and fallen into disrepair. Encompassing both delirious choreographic interludes and attention to quiet rituals, the film maps a world of perceptual distortions, obscure gestures, and collective processes.

Lananh Chu’s Creases of Time is visually composed of points of obfuscation, glitches, and blips resulting from unsteady hands attempting to take panoramic photos. In this one-minute video, the filmmaker presents the audience with folds and flutters that might otherwise be discarded. 

Together, Oriana and Creases of Time strive to visualize the ecstatic and unsettling potential of new forms and languages.

Curated by
Jaclyn Quaresma
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Date / Time
April 16, 2024
3:30PM – 5:00PM EDT
Location
Innis Town Hall

2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Sidewalk-level entrance, elevator and ramp available, door width 32 inches, no automatic doors. No accessible parking on-site. Four wheelchair accessible seats in the cinema. 15 step-free seats in row 9. Accessible gender-neutral washroom located on the 2nd and 3rd floor.

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Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Lananh Chu
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