Publications

TEXTUR #8 – Lucrecia Martel

The eighth edition of the ongoing Viennale publication series TEXTUR is dedicated to the Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel. Over the course of a career that includes both a celebrated trilogy dissecting the privileges of the middle class in her hometown of Salta and an impressive, decolonial adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s classic novel Zama, Martel has become one of the most respected and influential directors of our time. She is known for her remarkable precision in visual composition and her distinctive approach to sound.

In her new documentary NUESTRA TIERRA, which will be shown at the Viennale, she once again confronts the blind spots of Argentine society by investigating the murder of an Indigenous leader and giving voice to his suppressed community. TEXTUR #8 features an extensive interview with Martel, a conversation between actress and director María Alché and cinematographer Ernest de Carvalho, two exclusive new translations of short stories by Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937), as well as additional contributions by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Ramon Zürcher, Mercedes Halfron, and J. Hoberman.

TEXTUR #7 – Roberto Minervini

The seventh edition of the ongoing publication series TEXTUR is dedicated to the Italian-born director Roberto Minervini, who has been based in the USA for more than 20 years. Shifting gently between feature film and documentary, his films deal with the socio-political complexities of his adopted country and are interested in the people who otherwise remain invisible, marginalized or unheard. In addition to a major interview, the volume edited by Eva Sangiorgi and James Lattimer contains a conversation between the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino and Minervini, texts by his editor Marie-Hélène Dozo and his producers Paolo Benzi and Denise Ping Lee, exclusive images, sketches and notes from his film shoots as well as contributions by Mark Peranson, Payal Kapadia, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Rachael Rakes, Goffredo Fofi and Pablo Marín.

TEXTUR #6 Lisandro Alonso

For more than a generation, iconic director Lisandro Alonso, born in Buenos Aires in 1975, has been considered an innovator of Latin American cinema. The formal strength and evocative power of his six features to date, and finally EUREKA, presented this year at the Cannes Film Festival, emerge from a poetic and philosophical coherence that makes it possible to break away from narrative progression without losing context. The contributions of TEXTUR #6 dedicated to him come, among others, from the curators Olivier Père and Cecilia Barrionuevo, the film critics Lucía Salas and Quintín, and the film professionals Miguel Gomes and Viggo Mortensen.

Viennale 60. On Film Festivals

VIENNALE 60. ON FILM FESTIVALS. gathers reflections from festival experts in the form of conversations, interviews and essays; members of the industry share memories and experiences, discuss the past and present of the festival(s), provide ideas and suggestions for the future.

Read more about the publication in the Notebook Feature by James Lattimer here.

TEXTUR #5 - ALAIN GUIRAUDIE

Textur #5 pays tribute to the work of another great master of our time, Alain Guiraudie. It presents photos and texts by the filmmaker and writer, as well as contributions by other directors and critics who believe that Guiraudie's original voice of dissent gives expression to the unconventional spirits, the marginalized and the excluded of counter-society, and does so with a fine, elegant sense of humor. With contributions by Alain Guiraudie, Antoine Thirion, Roy Genty, Laurent Lunetta and others.

TEXTUR #4 - Darezhan Omirbayev

The fourth volume is dedicated to the Kazakh director Darezhan Omirbayev and contains various types of texts and materials. Essays, critical statements, poems and photographs, always of the director himself, shed light on a career that has been extremely rich and full of inspiration for decades - as most recently demonstrated by AKYN, which was shown at the Berlinale in February. With contributions by Isabelle Huppert, Chris Fujiwara, Saodat Ismailova, James Lattimer, Eva Sangiorgi and others.

TEXTUR #3 - Terence Davies

Textur #3 - TERENCE DAVIES - in English.

TEXTUR #2 - Kelly Reichardt

TEXTURE # 2 is dedicated to Kelly Reichardt, whose FIRST COW, one of the big films of this year, will be shown at the Viennale. The volume contains an essay by the critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, a text by the filmmaker Jem Cohen on the passion inherent in this craft, two poems written especially for the publication by the poet Eileen Myles, a story by Maile Meloy and other contributions and interviews.

TEXTUR #1 - Angela Schanelec

Revised and expanded new edition!

TEXTUR # 1 is dedicated to the German filmmaker Angela Schanelec. James Lattimer interviews Schanelec on a long summer walk through Berlin. Maren Eggert, who has appeared in several of her films, and Ivan Marković, Schanelec's current cinematographer, share their experiences of working with the filmmaker in a café. A poem by Lawrence Raab, a short story by Schanelec herself and a text by Ulrich Köhler enrich the book as well as personal contributions by critics, filmmakers and festival programmers to each of their works. A selection of photographs by Ivan Marković invites to a visual digression and illustrates the preparations for Schanelec's last film as well as the research on her new one.