Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen -- Enrico Camporesi

<p><b>This ambitious survey chronicles text and typography in 20th-century artists' films and experimental cinema</b></p><p>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 <i>Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen</i>, 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.<br><i>Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen</i> 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.<br><b>Films include: </b> <i>Anémic Cinéma</i> (Marcel Duchamp), <i>L'Étoile de mer</i>