Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen

Enrico Camporesi

ISBN 13: 9798991658010

Published by Mubi Editions Jun 2025, 2025

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Neuware - Read Frame Type Film stems from the ambitious 'TypoFilm' research project, initiated at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2020 and dedicated to constructing a genealogy of this understated yet pivotal element of design on screen. Long before the advent of the digital realm, we have been reading on screen. From credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical part in the structure of a film. Yet, away from the world of narrative, industrial cinema, where the work of renowned title designers like Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro has gained critical consideration, these textual and visual elements have often been overlooked. In Read Frame Type Film, film curator Enrico Camporesi, graphic design historian Catherine de Smet, and designer Philippe Millot aim to address this gap by focusing on a neglected body of works: experimental and artists' films. They bring their extensive research and expertise to a discussion of 24 works from the film collection at the Centre Pompidou that capture the affinity between cinema and typography. Composed of a series of rich explorative texts, accompanying specially-commissioned photography of analog film strips from the collection, the book is itself an experimental object in which text and images mirror one another. It spotlights the endless possibilities of interplay between images and text and centers a long-overlooked art form in the history of moving images. Read Frame Type Film is a book developed from the ambitious 'TypoFilm' research project that was initiated at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2020, dedicated to constructing a genealogy of this understated yet pivotal element of design on screen. Bringing together graphic design historians and specialists in artists' film and video, the project, a book in which text and images mirror one another, set out to pay rigorous attention to the practical, historical, and theoretical relationship between cinema and typography.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen
• Publisher: Mubi Editions Jun 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798991658010
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 337W x 239H x 23D millimeters 337 millimeters width by 239 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1332 grams

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Synopsis

This ambitious survey chronicles text and typography in 20th-century artists’ films and experimental cinema

From credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical part in the structure of a film. Yet, away from the world of mainstream cinema, where the work of renowned title designers such as Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro has gained critical consideration, these textual―and visual―elements have often been overlooked. In Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen, film curator Enrico Camporesi, graphic design historian Catherine de Smet and designer Philippe Millot aim to address this gap by focusing on an often neglected field: experimental and artists’ films. They bring their extensive research and expertise to a discussion of 24 works from the film collection at the Centre Pompidou in Paris that offer unique perspectives on the affinity between cinema and typography. Composed of a series of rich explorative texts, accompanying specially commissioned photography of analog filmstrips from the collection, the book is, itself, an experimental object, in which text and images mirror one another.
Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen stems from the ambitious "TypoFilm" research project, initiated at the Centre Pompidou in 2020 and dedicated to constructing a genealogy of this understated yet pivotal element of design on screen.
Films include: Anémic Cinéma (Marcel Duchamp), L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray), The Flicker (Tony Conrad), Sailboat (Joyce Wieland), Film About A Woman Who… (Yvonne Rainer), Light Reading (Lis Rhodes).