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Total trailers found: 17

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" Trailer (2019)

21 February 2019

An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico influence Trump's imagination.

Walkers Trailer (2017)

15 May 2017

a montage of a motif in Philippe Garrel's Cinema: walking.

Coming Apart Trailer (2017)

28 December 2017

"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for us, almost 55 years on from Contempt’s initial release, to fully grasp Godard’s modernist gestures, poised between a fullness of mythic and classical meaning, and the possibilities of a newly fragmented universe of signs.

These Dead Souls Trailer (2018)

07 May 2018

An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk's film The Tarnished Angels (1957). Analyzes a central scene 40 minutes into the narrative, and also refers both backward and forward in order to show the film’s richly elaborated logic of part and whole, repetition and stasis, drama and entropy.

Nicholas Ray - Notes on Style Trailer (2021)

07 June 2021

With the release of Nicholas Ray's debut They Live by Night in 1948, a new style emerged in American narrative film.

Birth Trailer (2021)

03 August 2021

"I guess you could say that this is a film about my birth. My mother told me once that my father became another person the moment I was born.

Haunted Memory: The Cinema of Víctor Erice Trailer (2016)

02 September 2016

Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López explore the joy and regret of nostalgia with one of the cinema’s great, spare poets of sense-memory.

Then He Kissed Me Trailer (2017)

03 October 2017

an audio-visual essay on the unconscious relationships between Fuller's Naked Kiss and David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return.

Telescopic Intimacy Trailer (2022)

18 May 2022

In their lyrical and philosophical video essay, “Telescopic Intimacy”, Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin explore the works of avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin.

The Unbreakable Frame Trailer (2022)

19 January 2022

In 1979, film scholar Noël Burch strongly criticized the films from the 1950s by Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse.

Birth Trailer (2021)

03 August 2021

a little film by the well respected critic and writer, Cristina Alvarez Lopez.

Wishful Space: Nosferatu Trailer (2016)

31 October 2016

An audiovisual essay on Nosferatu (1922) illustrating how F.W. Murnau used poetic montage to evoke an imaginary, secretive, ‘wishful space’ driven by desire and dread in equal measure.

Bodies and Spaces, Fabric and Light Trailer (2018)

03 July 2018

This visual essay focuses on the visual style and composition of the Hollywood films made together by Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich.

Phantasmagoria of the Interior Trailer (2015)

20 April 2015

PHANTASMAGORIA OF THE INTERIOR is an audiovisual essay devoted to Walerian Borowczyk's film THE STRANGE CASE OF DR.

Games Trailer (2009)

11 February 2009

By tracing back some sequences from both films ( Germany year zero (Germania anno zero, Roberto Rossellini, 1948) & Ivan's childhood (Ivanovo destvo, Andrei Tarkovski, 1962) ) and placing their images side by side we discover secret links between the journeys of the two child protagonists.

The thinking machine 56: Smile Trailer (2022)

03 September 2022

In 1921, at the tender age of 24, filmmaker and theorist Jean Epstein (1897-1953) described the screen spectacle of a person smiling.

Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive" Trailer (2025)

09 October 2025

A BFI video essay on Chantal Akerman's "La Captive" by writer and critic Cristina Álvarez López.