Situates Martel's features and unstudied short films in relation to trends in recent national and international filmmaking.

Introduction
1 La ciénaga: distanciation and embodiment
2 La niña santa: horror, ambivalence, femininity
3 La mujer sin cabeza: haunting and community
4 Liquid worlds and aquatic life: the short films (2010-11)
Conclusion: cinematic pleasures
Index