Directed by Oliver Hermanus and released by MUBI, The History of Sound is based on a pair of short stories by Ben Shattuck detailing students Lionel and David’s relationship while attending the Boston Music Conservatory circa 1917, as they travel together recording the folk songs of people across rural Maine.

As a departure from regular Trailaurality fare this week, we’re going to explore a 30-second trailer for a single episode of Alien: Earth. This is the first tv series in the Alien franchise originally created in 1979 by Ridley Scott which, after over a dozen films, is still going strong. In an ambitious and novel take on trailers, the creative team behind Alien: Earth are releasing a new trailer for each episode. As is clear from this trailer, the show relies as much on sound design as it does on Jess Russo’s tense score.

This week, we’re looking at probably the strongest contender for the theatrical holiday season, as James Cameron prepares us for the next film in the Avatar series—with a third film taking a fairly reasonable three years from the last, in stark contrast to the thirteen-year wait between the first and second movies.