Lucrecia Martel: An Uncompromising Genius of Cinema October 18–21, 2018

Istanbul Modern Cinema hosts Lucrecia Martel, one of the leading directors of Argentinian cinema. A critically acclaimed auteur of contemporary world cinema with her short but loaded filmography, Martel is also a representative of New Argentine Cinema, which developed in the late 1980s. Martel has created a language of cinema that is more involved with the subliminal, the dreams and the non-existent spaces of the story than its direction, inviting the audience into an experience that comes before language, questioning the boundary between the avant-garde and the narrative, and a language that activates sensory perception and corporal conscience by removing cinematic stimulants. Martel started her career with the short films she directed in 1988, and directed her first feature-length film La Ciénaga in 2001. The retrospective program will include three short and four feature-length films by Martel, including Zama (2017), which she filmed after a nine-year hiatus.