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Pressing On - The Letterpress Film

  • Date: Friday, November 24, 2017
  • Time: 7pm
  • Location: Workers Arts & Heritage Centre
  • Address: 51 Stuart St. (Google Maps)

The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film explores the question: why has letterpress survived in a digital age?

Worlds of each character emerge as unusual narratives—joyful, mournful, reflective and visionary—are punctuated with on-screen visual poetry, every shot meticulously composed. Captivating personalities blend with wood, metal and type as young printers strive to save this historic process in a film created for the designer, type nerd, historian and collector in us all.

http://letterpressfilm.com/

Tickets available in advance online or at Mixed Media, 154 James St. North.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pressing-on-the-letterpress-film-tickets-37582350823

Posted by davekuruc

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