Due to rights issues, Hal Hartley‘s genius 1991 film, Trust, has sadly never been officially available in the US. This is the film that was my awakening to American indie cinema, which stars the late Adrienne Shelly. Here’s how I imagined it might look like if Criterion got to release it on DVD. One can dream.

The design is adapted, obviously, from the one-sheet–itself, a bit rebellious and unorthodox, as it is designed in horizontal format. The image is iconic, amongst indie film fans. Yes, I know the title is illegible and would thus disqualify it from even getting to a Hollywood distributor in the first place. What, no critic’s quote and star names on the cover? Gotta love Criterion, the only company who could get away with such a marketing faux pas.