Vancouver Premier of:
Justine Nagan’s Typeface — A Chronicle of Typography in the Digital Age and Dying Art of Timeless Craftsmanship
Friday January 21 | Doors: 7 & 9 PM, Screening: 7:30 & 9:30 PM | $7 – 10 sliding scale
In order to accommodate as many as possible, we will be having TWO SCREENINGS Friday, January 21: 7:30 & 9:30pm. Limited seating, no advance tickets.
In a time when people can carry computers in their pockets and watch TV while walking down the street, Typeface dares to explore the twilight of an analog craft that is freshly inspiring artists in a digital age. The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museum’s days may be numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial marketplace where big-box retailers are king?
Year: 2009 | Runtime: 63 mins | Language: English | Country: USA | Color: Color
IMDb Link: imdb.com/title/tt1207998/
Director: Justine Nagan
The highly anticipated directorial debut of Kartemquin Films’ Executive Director and Producer Justine Nagan was filmed in Wisconsin. Typeface focuses on a rural Midwestern museum and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.
Nagan discovered the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum by happy accident while traveling through rural Wisconsin. She passed through Two Rivers and there, found a block-long warehouse that housed 1.5 million pieces of wood type, handcrafted relics of a bygone era. The result? A 60-minute movie, that tells the story of how the art of typography struggles to find its place in the digital age. It also chronicles the Hamilton Family’s own fight for survival.
“I stumbled upon Hamilton by chance,” said Nagan. “The age old artisan handwork and craftsmanship is inspiring and the place is both a national and historical treasure. The story of a diminishing craft- and culture- lives in this rural time capsule is very significant. I had to pay attention. As we see a return to appreciation for attention to detail vs. speed, quality over quantity and the rewards of slow I think we will see the tide shift in what work we value.”
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Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.
