BOOK / A SHARED DESTINY. Lucrecia Martel

FILM

This book compiles a series of public presentations by the Argentine director Lucrecia Martel. Through ten lectures and classes, given between 2009 and 2025 at institutions and festivals in Argentina, Spain, and Uruguay, and transcribed here for the first time, Martel shares the resources that drive her filmmaking and her unique relationship with sound, while also expanding her perspective on the historical and contemporary tensions of narrative.

Her talks offer a free-flowing exploration of some unsettling questions. How can we engage sensitively with what is happening in our communities? How can we re-establish dialogue with those who think differently? What narrative strategies are desirable in the face of the standardization imposed by algorithms and platforms? Without offering categorical or solemn answers, Martel suggests tools for collectively exploring alternative ways of inhabiting the present and the future. The book, organized into three sections, also includes exchanges with the Argentine filmmaker and writer César González, the Spanish director Carla Simón, and the journalist Leila Guerriero, in which counterpoints emerge regarding artistic creation. The central theme throughout is conversation as a way to rebuild community and construct a space for thinking with others.

A Common Destiny is not about her films, but rather uses her filmmaking practice as a starting point to propose new discussions in the cultural sphere. In times of closed discourses and predictable authoritarian gestures, the voice of the director of La Ciénaga and Nuestra Tierra is striking for its frankness and provocative approach, willing to revisit the mistakes of the past, confront the unease of the present, and encourage future generations to invent what does not yet exist.

Title: A Common Destiny
Author: Lucrecia Martel
Number of Pages: 224
Size: 14 x 19 cm
Weight: 266 grams
Genre: Film
Language: Spanish
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sexto Piso
Co-published by: Caja Negra
Year: 2025