ReFocus: The Films of Lucrecia Martel

Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha is an independent film researcher and programmer specialising in Latin American cinema. She is the author of Espaços em conflito. Ensaios sobre a cidade no cinema argentino contemporâneo (2019) and A experiência do cinema de Lucrecia Martel: Resíduos do tempo e sons à beira da piscina (2014. Translation into Spanish: 2020). Julia Kratje is a researcher at Argentina's National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), and teaches at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is the author of Al margen del tiempo. Deseos, ritmos y atmósferas en el cine argentino (2019) and editor of El asombro y la audacia. El cine de María Luisa Bemberg (2020), among others. Paul R. Merchant is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Film and Visual Culture at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005-2015 (2022) and the co-editor of Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (2020).

• Metamorphosis and Persistence: An Introduction - Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, Julia Kratje and Paul R. Merchant Speeds, Generations, and Utopias (Concerning Lucrecia Martel’s The Swamp) - Ana AmadoSounding Class, Race and Gender in Lucrecia Martel’s The Swamp - Dianna C. NiebylskiBeing Unable to See and Being Invisible: Unrecognizable, Inaudible Voices in Fish, New Argirópolis, and Muta - Ana ForcinitoMuta: Monstrosity and Mutation - Mariana Souto and Mônica CampoShort Films as Aesthetic Freedom - Emilio BerniniMasculinity, Desire and Performance in The Holy Girl - Gonzalo Aguilar Other Areas: The Bio-Communal and Feminine Utopia of Cornucopia - Alejandra LaeraRealities Made to Order. On The Headless Woman - Malena VerardiFevers, Frights, and Psychophysical Disconnections: Invisible Threats in the Soundtracks of Zama and The Headless Woman - Damyler CunhaMartel Variations - Adriana Amante‘They Smother You’ - Nora Catelli‘A Kind of Bliss, a Closing Eyelid, a Tiny Fainting Spell’: Zama and the Lapse Into Colour - Deborah MartinPhenomenology of Spirits: Off-Screen Horror in Lucrecia Martel’s Films - David OubiñaThe Conquest of the Uncomfortable. An Interview with Lucrecia Martel - Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, Julia Kratje and Paul R. Merchant

This book offers a very wide and thorough approach to Martel’s cinema and her other visual productions. The introduction and final interview provide very interesting and thorough information to any reader who wants to dive into Martel’s films [...] many of the chapters will surely become leading references in the study of her cinema.