“In this film, I show Elizam Escobar, an artist and writer who spent 19 and a half years in prison for his political activism. I also present objects I made to spark associations and that are somewhat related to what I know of the movement to which he belonged, and of which he cannot speak. Nuevos materiales is part of a series of films I made with former members of a clandestine anti-colonial movement in Puerto Rico. It serves as a kind of code, or explanation of the process of making the films, which was more about free associating with random materials and invention.” Beatriz Santiago Muñoz