Issue 5 of Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays offers seven audiovisual works of diverse origins and style. Hence, we publish pieces that stem from different “territories”—from researchers in the beginning of their careers to reputed videoessayists, from established scholars to filmmakers with interests closer to the avant-garde and documentary practices. Furthermore, we have received more submissions that ever and, hopefully, this points to the consolidation of our journal, following the steps of publications such as [in]Transition and the remarkable works of researchers such as Catherine Grant, Chris Keathley and Jason Mittell or critics/creators such as Cristina Álvarez López, Adrian Martin or Philip Brubaker.

For us, making/publishing/circulating audiovisual essays is an ongoing project we share with many other people, constantly evolving and allowing the academic and cinephile community to grow. Pioneering initiatives such as “The Video Essay Podcast” by Will DiGravio, the extraordinary production of filmmakers such as Kogonada, Matt Zoller Seitz or the above-mentioned Philip Brubaker (we are fortunate to have one of his pieces in this issue) expands a field of intervention that has become indispensable for contemporary research and cultural understanding. 

In the section “From the Archive”, Alejandro Melero addresses the representation of queer identities in 1980s Spanish television through the figures of Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift.

Nothing else: explore issue 5 of our journal and enjoy it. It opens new paths and ways of thinking about the audiovisual world.