beatriz santiago muñoz


[this website is still in process. slowly adding work and documents. most full screeners are linked below but you need a password from me]

+Like Water opening March 7 at CAMSTL
+You can watch Prisoner’s Cinema as part of Artists on Artists on the Criterion Channel
+Screening on April 10 @Serpentine Galleries
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Elogio al disparate
2024


“At the center of her three films shown at the Secession is, of all things, nonsense. The newly produced works that were shot on 16 mm stock and then transferred to video use free association and formal play to build relationships between sound and image that are not to be grasped by “making” rational sense.

The three films are inspired by jitanjáforas, invented nonsense words, and their exuberant use in Caribbean poetry and music in the twentieth century. These speculative words mostly unfold their poetic dimensions in their phonetic properties. They favor chaos, dissonance and revolutionary spirit over reactionary concepts of fixed truths that secure the political and societal status quo.”  
Pájaro, cómeme
2023

16mm film installation
︎︎︎On view now until Januart 28 as part of Liquid Intelligence at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza / TBA21 

https://vimeo.com/bsantiagomunoz/pajaro
single channel preview
 
Oenanthe
2023

Single-channel and two-channel 16mm and video transferred to 4k
5.1 sound
18 minutes total rt
Oenanthe is a companion piece to Oriana, and part of the series of works that are related to Monique Wittig’s writing. These two 16mm films were shot just a few minutes from Dannemarie, where she grew up, during a time spent in residence at Crac-Alsace. Originally structured as a part of Oriana in 2020, shooting in Alsace had to be postponed until 2022, when the pandemic had subsided. 
Oriana [single-channel]
2022

Single-channel, hd video, 78 minutes

Oriana is based on feminist writer Monique Wittig’s novel Les Guérillères from 1969. Santiago Muñoz’s free and procedural reinterpretation of Les Guérillères transposes Wittig’s remarkable linguistic inventions into an equally unconventional filmic structure. In the work, a band of militant feminists – mostly close collaborators and acquaintances of Santiago Muñoz – are invited to inhabit an undefined space-time proposed by the artist. 
Oriana [multi-channel]
2021-23

Multi-channel, in 6 and  8 screens, 5.1 audio and stereo audio, variable size screens

.︎︎︎PDF
︎︎︎Multi-channel installation in Pivo, Argos and Crac-Alsace
︎︎︎Production stills by Bleue Liverpool and Sara Griffith




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