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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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.
List of films featured in the book:
1. Anémic Cinéma (Marcel Duchamp, 1925)
2. The Sixth Part of the World (Dziga Vertov, 1926)
3. Impatience (Charles Dekeukeleire, 1928)
4. L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray, 1928)
5. Impressions of the Old Marseille Harbor (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1929)
6. By Night With Torch and Spear (Joseph Cornell, 1930-1940)
7. Musical Poster no. 1 (Len Lye, 1940)
8. La Verifica Incerta (Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi, 1964-1965)
9. The Flicker (Tony Conrad, 1966)
10. Word Movie (Fluxfilm 29) (Paul Sharits, 1966)
11. Sailboat (Joyce Wieland, 1967-1968)
12. Six films infinitésimaux et supertemporels (Maurice Lemaītre,
1967-1975)
13. Saga (Jean-Franēois Bory, 1968)
14. Still (Ernie Gehr, 1969-1971)
15. Au-delą de cette limite (Marcel Broodthaers, 1971)
16. Film About A Woman Who (Yvonne Rainer, 1974)
17. Origin of the Night (Lothar Baumgarten, 1973-1977)
18. Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice (Jean-Marie Straub et Daničle
Huillet, 1977)
19. Light Reading (Lis Rhodes, 1978)
20. IKON-KINO (Timm Ulrichs,1969/1979)
21. Displaced Person (Daniel Eisenberg, 1981)
22. So Is This (Michael Snow, 1982)
23. Secondary Currents (Peter Rose, 1983)
24. Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher, 1984)
Enrico Camporesi oversees the research activities of the Centre Pompidou film collection. He is the author of Futurs de lobsolescence (Mimésis, 2018), a book on restoring artists films.
Catherine de Smet, professor at Université Paris 8, is a historian of art and graphic design. In addition to her work on Le Corbusier's editorial and curatorial activities, which has resulted in three books (2005, 2007, 2019), she has co-edited several books based on collective research, including Graphic Design: History in the Writing (with Sara De Bondt, 2014) and Études sur le collectif Grapus, 1970-1990 (with Béatrice Fraenkel, 2016). Her book Pour une critique du design graphique (2nd ed. 2020) brings together a selection of her essays on 20th and 21st century graphic design.
Philippe Millot is a graphic designer and typographer who teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Graphic International Alliance. His work has been acquired by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and has also been shown in several exhibitions.
