Ari Marcopoulos Movie Trailers

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

Painter, fisherman, visionary, eccentric - Forrest Bess lived his life in obscurity, at an isolated bait camp off the East Coast of Texas.

A Visual Sound Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

The debut full-length video from Stereo Skateboards.

While unpacking some long-forgotten boxes in his studio during COVID, he came across a brown paper bag filled with exposed Super-8 film cassettes and, naturally, sent them out to be developed and digitised.

Claremont Trailer (2008)

02 September 2008

Skateboarders Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo filming each other on a ten-minute downhill slope—in powder blue suits and into oncoming traffic.

Larry Wright Trailer (1989)

11 November 1989

With a subway platform as his stage and a plastic can as his instrument, 14-year-old Larry Wright is a self-taught drummer with astonishing talent.

Beastie Boys: Video Anthology Trailer (2000)

21 November 2000

The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop to a wider audience and changed the parameters of its sound, their ambitious music videos have carried the medium to new levels of artistic expression.

Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits Trailer (2005)

08 November 2005

Solid Gold Hits is a greatest hits collection by Beastie Boys, released in November 2005. In contrast to 1999's The Sounds of Science anthology, Solid Gold Hits consists only of tracks that were released as singles.

The Park Trailer (2017)

14 October 2017

The Park is an uninterrupted 58-minute capture of the action on an unfenced basketball court adjacent to the Walt Whitman housing projects in Fort Greene Brooklyn, New York.

Detroit Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

Detroit merges his attention to particularities of cultural identity with the intimacy of a home movie.

Seventy-One Percent of Earth Trailer (2009)

28 April 2009

Big wave surfers Grant Twiggy Baker, Brian Conley, Greg Long, Rusty Long, Frank Solomon and Anthony Tashnick call for the creation of marine protected areas in our oceans, like national parks on land.

Roma Trailer (2016)

24 September 2016

Evoking the spirit of postwar neo-realism, Marcopoulos sketches an impression of the Italian capital with unvarnished detail, capturing the quotidian life of a city where past and present collide.

June and Robert Kara and Me Trailer (2022)

01 January 2022

"In the summer of 2019 Kara [Walker] and I took our second and final visit to see Robert Frank and June Leaf at their place in Mabou, Nova Scotia.

Alone Together Trailer (2021)

24 September 2021

Marcopoulos’s vital document of jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, filmed in an empty gallery with three cameras recording the raw behind-the-scenes set-up, captures the avant-garde legend in all of his improvised splendor, his poetry reading and alto saxophone performance, alternately aggressive and transcendent, overflowing with beauty and lyricism.

Upper Big Tracadie Trailer (2018)

31 December 2018

Filmed during a late summer trip in Nova Scotia, Marcopoulos visited a small town founded in 1783 by freed American slaves during the revolutionary war.

Sketches for #PUNK Trailer (2019)

01 January 2019

The rhythms of tribal dance and street basketball commune in this diasporic summit, in which studio footage of famed Zimbabwe-born, New York–based choreographer Nora Chipaumire is intercut with teenagers hitting jump shots on a Manhattan court.

Monogram Hunters Trailer (2018)