Hollywood at Last!

Helvetica

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typefa

2007

Il fiume ha sempre ragione

Alberto Casiraghy and Josef Weiss are true bibliophile artists. One in Osnago, the other in Mendrisio, they have been dedicating themselves for years

2016

Lettera22

A documentary film about Adriano Olivetti.

2009

Hanzi

Hanzi is a documentary exploring international design, visual culture, and identity through the lens of modern Chinese typography. The film covers a v

2017

Máquinas de palabras

2023

The History of Typography

A short, educational animation about the history of fonts and typography. In a paper cutout stop-motion style, it begins with Gutenberg's creation of

2013

Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

Why has letterpress printing survived? Irreplaceable knowledge of the historic craft is in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. Fascinating per

2017

The Gutenberg Enigma

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring businessman

2017

Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.

2023

Letters O, P, and R

Words that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation.

1992

Ake & Ch

Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation.

1991

First Film

FIRST FILM was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the Kalahari

The Rumble of the World

Greece, Russia, USA, Brazil, China, Senegal. Meeting young people in these countries we heard a ‘Rumble’ foretelling an impending explosion. The fall

2021

Clean Cities

Who are the people who clean the roads of the world? Why are the majority of them women and immigrants? The well-traveled show “Clean City” of the Ona

2021

For All the Brilliant Conversations

Malaysian queer filmmaker Seok and Kenyan disabled activist-scholar Faith – embark on a journey to make a film that captures their friendship, putting

2020

Wisemen, God, and Wednesday

Samwise and Stevie grew up with homelessness in BC and Nova Scotia. Ianos is a gender-queer Greek. Kwaku is a single father who came from extreme pove

2020

Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

Documentary which focuses more on the impact of the film upon its release and how it has seeped into the culture since that time. It is always fun to

2006

Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan

Documentary which delves a bit deeper into the story of the film in which the cast and crew discuss some of the narrative beats, the performances in s

2006

Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan

A documentary in which the creative team discuss the process of adapting the material, the challenge of bringing an icon to life, bringing Frank Perry

2006

Forever as the End – Fate

Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Ulrich Ollendorff’s family flees Berlin as to avoid the horrific destiny shared by six and a half million Jews who we

2022