Beatriz Santiago Muñoz joins us for the New York premiere of her debut feature Oriana (2022). The film relocates Monique Wittig’s feminist classic novel Les Guérillères (1969) to contemporary Puerto Rico, whose cycles of colonial extraction and regeneration have long been a focus of the artist’s short films. Filmed in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Oriana gathers a group of San Juan–based artists and activists to portray Wittig’s band of warrior women on the winning side of a battle of the sexes. Across lush forests and ruined infrastructure, the film chronicles the makings of a new social order with its rituals and collective actions for gathering food, crafting objects, resting, conversing, and readying for combat. All the while, Muñoz pushes the bounds of literary adaption. Transposing the novel’s innovations in forming a syntax beyond gender to a free-associative cinematic language, Oriana imagines an entrancing near-future rooted in “the material and conceptual ground of the Caribbean.”