"You have to love the scratches", said Kelly Reichardt when she presented her debut feature RIVER OF GRASS at our festival in 1994. 26 years later we are not only going to show her great latest work FIRST COW but also dedicate our second publication of our book series TEXTUR to this outstanding director. The volume contains an essay by the critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, an article by the filmmaker Jem Cohen about the passion that is inherent in the handiwork of this medium, two poems that were especially written for this publication by the poet Eileen Myles, a story by Maile Meloy, and numerous other written and visual contributions and interviews.