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Ramona and the Ballad of Juan Diego

About two hours east of Los Angeles, thousands gather each spring in Hemet for The Ramona Pageant, the oldest continuously staged outdoor play in the United States. The production draws from Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona, a cultural force that helped shape California’s identity and spotlighted injustices against Native Americans. Following the pageant’s centennial, the film tracks Eli Santana, who plays Alessandro, as he investigates the real history behind the fiction, including the 1880s killing of Juan Diego. In museum archives, the team discovers a rare wax cylinder that preserves the killer’s testimony. They seek out descendants of Juan Diego and his wife, Ramona Lubo, and record a new wax-cylinder statement to restore her missing voice. The journey culminates at the pageant, where descendants and Bird Singers gather, and Eli debuts The Ballad of Juan Diego, reframing a California myth for the next hundred years.

Ramona and the Ballad of Juan Diego

NR 2026
Maternal Language Part 1: The Construction of Maternal Form & its Adaptation to Absent Sexual Vitality

This part of the ‘Maternal Language’ collection maps recent academic descent, informing an ongoing diagnosis of Klinefelter syndrome; facing the threat of an infertile reality and the adaption to such. The film attempts to craft a revised maternal role in respect of the unnatural test, the reconstruction of the body to confront the uncertain future. The body, devised into its physical and spiritual roles in the maternal facet; A revised, academically informed ideal for such people accursed with the unnatural test of an unstable sexual identity. The film attempts to depict a reality in which both sexes must attempt to adapt in the absence of sexual vitality; contrasted by nomadic communities, who must adapt in such manner to survive the fertile reality in which already we live in. The film assesses the masculine & feminine tool, traits to which both sexes harbour to achieve their maternal role; such graft extrapolates the tribal reality of gender.

Maternal Language Part 1: The Construction of Maternal Form & its Adaptation to Absent Sexual Vitality

9.0 2026
A Buried Mind

After the recent death of his wife, hardworking gravedigger Henry Adler begins to suffer from sinister visions of death. Plagued by the grief of his loss, the phantom apparitions grow, spiraling his mind into a descent of madness. In search for peace he relies on his friends for some sense of comfort, only to slip further into a hallucinatory state. His work becomes his only distraction, causing him to become restless. Will he escape the madness of his own mind? Will the loss of his wife be too much to bear?

A Buried Mind

NR 2026