Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen

Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the ScreenFrom credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical role in cinema. Yet, away from the world of mainstream film, these textualand visualelements have often been overlooked. In Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen, film curator Enrico Camporesi, graphic design historian Catherine de Smet, and designer Philippe Millot center the beauty and innovation of a neglected body of works: experimental and artists films. They

Only the photos endure

transaction

grips and closures

and uncertainty in intimate spaces

and survival

Unmaking Image

through concepts such as kinship

queer-feminist

a cahier simply held together by two staples

By focusing on simple everyday transports and movement and their meaning

and the critical texts that explains it written by William Rubin in 1970

commonly circulated as a convenient summary of dispossession