“Laurel sabino and jaguilla are the names of two magnolias endemic to Puerto Rico. The film documents bits of botanical improvisational theatre with Raquel Folgado, a cryonicist attempting to reproduce and preserve magnolias in California, and Tamara Heartsill, an ecologist who took me to a research plot in El Yunque forest preserve in Puerto Rico, where we think at least 2 laureles sabinos survived the hurricane of 2017. If magnolias have a language, we hope it’s more like avant-garde poetry.” Beatriz Santiago Muñoz