Hypnotic Pictures Movie Trailers

let me come in Trailer (2021)

10 April 2021

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

The Dockworker's Dream Trailer (2016)

01 April 2016

Drawing from Portugal’s rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, “The Dockworker's Dream” takes the viewer on a journey downriver, into port, into factories, towns, and families, and out into the great unknown.

Buried News Trailer (2021)

17 June 2021

Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in the U.

Ghost Trip Trailer (2000)

13 June 2000

Singer-songwriter Slink Moss plays the mysterious driver of a Cadillac hearse who journeys across America to pick up and drop off a hitchhiker to his (final?) destination.

The Mesmerist Trailer (2003)

07 November 2003

Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust.

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle Trailer (2021)

27 April 2021

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.

Outerborough Trailer (2005)

19 April 2005

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Her Violet Kiss Trailer (2021)

30 December 2021

A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.

Dawson City: Frozen Time Trailer (2017)

09 June 2017

The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

Incident Trailer (2023)

25 April 2023

Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police body-cams, Incident recreates the event and its consequences, featuring vain justifications, altercations and attempts to avoid blame.