She wrote: “I wanted a driving, rhythmic track to run simultaneously with speeches, so they didn’t have to be listened to. I could not have imagined all the ways in which it would force me to rethink myself.” Lizzie Borden originally planned to name Born in Flames after Les Guérillères, before settling on the title of the song Mayo Thompson wrote for her film. But as I really had no answers, the work presented itself to me as an open experiment. I wanted to follow its questions into visual language and radical feminist transformation. I was and still am enthralled with its way around language and form. In relation to her film Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz reflected: “I have been in love with this text for a very long time, since I first read it at nineteen. “They say, If I take over the world, let it be to dispossess myself of it immediately, let it be to forge new links between myself and the world.” -Monique Wittig, Les GuérillèresĪs part of UC Berkeley’s conference on Monique Wittig (1935–2003), we present two feature film responses to Les Guérillères, Wittig’s 1969 experimental novel.
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