8 October 2016, 13:00, Birkbeck Cinema Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin have worked together on a series of audio-visual essays on a wide range of subjects. Their work utilises straightforward digital editing tools to re-edit and re-shape existing footage alongside written/spoken text to expand on the inherent meaning of the images used to create new approaches and different directions of film criticism. In this session they were joined by Catherine Grant for an extended conversation addressing the audio-visual essay as well as reflecting on their own audio-visual practice. The session was interspersed with screenings from their wide body of work. Films: Roman Polanski: A Cinema of Invasion, Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, Spain, 2016, digital, 16 minutes, English A Season in Hell, Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, Spain, 2015, digital, 4 minutes, English Queer Godard, Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, Spain, 2016, digital, 12 minutes, English Shapes of Rage, Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, Spain, 2015, digital, 7 minutes, English Haunted Memory: The Cinema of Víctor Erice, Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, Spain, 2016, digital, 13 minutes, English Death-Drive: The Girl on a Motorcycle, Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, Spain, 2016, digital, 5 minutes, English Cristina Álvarez López is critic and audiovisual artist based in Vilassar de Mar. She is co-founder of the Spanish online film journal Transit: Cine y otros desvíos, and her criticism and audiovisual essays have also appeared in Fandor Keyframe, MUBI Notebook, Shangri-la, LOLA, Contrapicado, Lumière, Blogs & Docs, La Fuga, De Filmkrant and books on Chantal Akerman, Bong Joon-ho, Philippe Garrel and Paul Schrader. Adrian Martin is Adjunct Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Monash University (Australia), and lives in Vilassar de Mar as a freelance writer and audiovisual artist. He is the author of seven books, the most recent being Mise en scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art (Palgrave). His regular columns appear in Caiman and De Filmkrant. He is co-editor of LOLA journal, and of the book Movie Mutations (BFI, 2003). Catherine Grant teaches and researches film studies at the University of Sussex (UK). A prolific video essayist as well as a pioneering publisher and curator of such works (including at Film Studies For Free and Audiovisualcy), she is founding co-editor of the first peer-reviewed publication for audiovisual essays on film and media studies topics, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, which was awarded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award of Distinction for 2015.