Hanzi (2017)

Helvetica é um documentário realizado por Gary Hustwit, que pretende demonstrar o papel da fonte Helvetica na cultura visual dos últimos 50 anos. Nos diversos entrevistados poderemos encontrar, Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Paula Scher, Neville Brody, entre outros.

Why has letterpress printing survived? Irreplaceable knowledge of the historic craft is in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. Fascinating personalities intermix with wood, metal, and type as young printers save a traditional process in Pressing On, a 4K feature-length documentary exploring the remarkable community keeping letterpress alive.

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, a tenacious troublemaker: the life of Johannes Gutenberg (circa 1400-68).

Hanzi is a documentary exploring international design, visual culture, and identity through the lens of modern Chinese typography. The film covers a variety of topics such as how languages shape identity, and what role handwriting plays in the digital age.

Edo, Japan. Calligraphists are not mere writers, they can bring drawings to life and utilize kanji. Three calligraphists from the art wielding clan join up and fight against an exiled calligraphist and his minions to protect the Tokugawa shogunate.

A documentary film about Adriano Olivetti.

Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-series, letters on billboards, shop-windows or street-signs, the banner-headlines of The Los Angeles Times, and climbs finally to the giant letters of the HOLLYWOOD-sign. In the meantime he discovers, to his great satisfaction, the location and stairs where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot their movie 'The Musicbox', by combining street-signs, partially shown on still-pictures of this movie: "…MONTE" and "…ENDOME", which turn out to be found on the street corner of Del Monte and Vendome in Culver City. This documentary is bluntly intercut with commercials, a phenomenon not yet known in the Netherlands in 1979. (Theo Uittenbogaard)

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 the first typeface, travels through the innovations of Jenson, Caslon, and Bodoni, to the modern creation of Futura and the democratization of fonts in the digital age. A charming, engaging film about a technology that is all around us, but few people know much about.

INK follows Tanja Tiziana – a freelance photographer in Toronto, Canada – and her journey to rediscover the written word.

Alberto Casiraghy and Josef Weiss are true bibliophile artists. One in Osnago, the other in Mendrisio, they have been dedicating themselves for years to valuable editorial and typographical activities, still printing with mobile characters, preserving the memory of a perfect ingenuity made of manual skills and technique, but also of inventiveness and poetry. Silvio Soldini gives us a realistic and poetical portrait of these two artists-artisans, who chose one of the oldest professions in a modern world, finding great success and approval.

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

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

Inspired by the untold personal story of the 19th-century Chinese poet and revolutionary Qiu Jin, Wu Tsang brings to life, subverts, and re-enacts the lesser-known romance and friendship with calligrapher Wu Zhiying. Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the film shifts between time and space, past and present, fact and fiction through Tsang's continued exploration of language and misinterpretation.

Filmado em 24 países, O filme mostra várias paisagens, igrejas, ruínas, cerimônias religiosas e cidades, numa busca para que cada quadro consiga capturar a grande pulsação da humanidade nas atividades diárias. O filme ficou pronto depois de 11 anos. Baraka é uma palavra Sufi que significa 'O fôlego da vida'.

Um grupo de amigos aventureiros sai às ruas procurando vítimas inocentes para testemunhar suas brincadeiras absurdas. Perigo e dor fazem parte da jornada desta gangue, que não se cansa de chocar o público.

“This Is It” oferece aos fãs de Michael e apreciadores de música de todo mundo, uma rara e especial visão dos bastidores do artista, mostrando o desenvolvimento, a criação e os ensaios dos espetáculos que já tinham lotação esgotada e iriam começar no verão de 2009 na O2 Arena, em Londres. Seguindo uma narrativa entre Abril e Junho de 2009, o filme representa mais de 100 horas de bastidores apresentando Michael Jackson ensaiando diversas músicas para os shows.

Johnny Knoxville e seus companheiros levam para a tela do cinema as estripulias e loucuras do programa "Jackass". Agora eles invadem o Japão, onde se disfarçam de pandas, atacam um campo de golf e enfrentam jacarés.

30 anos após "Garganta Funda" ter revolucionado a opinião pública, surge Dentro de Garganta Funda - o documentário que coloca frente a frente as modestas intenções de quem fez o filme e as consequências devastadoras que (inadvertidamente) criaram.

Os amigos liderados por Johnny Knoxville exploram o limite do bom gosto com esquetes e brincadeiras obscenas, nojentas e grotescas. Essas pegadinhas, punições corporais e acrobacias insanas não são para aqueles que têm o estômago fraco.

Johnny Knoxville e seus amigos continuam se dedicando a colocar em prática suas ideias grotescas e obscenas. Os resultados absurdos de cada uma delas sempre são cenas para aqueles que têm estômago forte.