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Trailer for the documentary Pressing On: The Letterpress Film.

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 caretaker’s 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.

Pressing On: The Letterpress Film Trailer (2018)

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Duration
2 min 12 sec

Views
354

Posted On
May 29, 2018
Director
Erin Beckloff

Writer
Erin Beckloff

Studio
Independent

Release
June 19, 2018
Cast
Adam Winn
Paul Aken
Stephanie Carpenter
Richard Hopkins
Jim Moran
Trailer Tracks
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