One of the wonders that continually reveals itself in Martel’s films is the sudden appearance of what had previously remained invisible—an experience that compels recognition rather than merely offering it. Martel’s unique form of confrontation—uncompromising yet understood as necessary—with collective memory and its gaping wounds runs through her work. Fearless and sensual, as resolute as she is sensitive, she traces the very substance upon which “orders” have been constructed. Social, political, and ultimately personal systems whose fault lines must be persistently stretched. In conversation with Kathrin Resetarits, the focus will be on the practical, ethical, and intellectual methods required to “re-think” cinema as a critical form of engaging with the world—and, as so characteristic of Martel, to employ it equally as a poetic practice.