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Endless Letterpress

Festivals

• A+D Winnipeg Film Festival (Canada, 2019)
• ByDesign Film Festival 2019 (USA, 2019)
• Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2019 (USA, 2019)
• Saratov Sufferings Documentary Drama Film Festival 2019 (Russia, 2019)
• Docu.Text Tel Aviv Film Festival 2019 (Israel, 2019)

Interviews & Reviews

• Interview at Northwest Film Forum
• Review at Association of European Printing Museums: “Poetry lovers and aspiring fine press publishers, technological dropouts, art students who have discovered that there is life after the Mac, hot-metal and type geeks, typographers suffering from digital fatigue, and people who just love the smell of ink and the sound of machinery.”
• Urban Cottage: “You do not need to be an afficionado of print to appreciate the skill, dedication and sheer artistry of people who create classic posters.”
• Designinpublic 
• Escribiendo Cine:“Una idea romántica de rescatar lo que está por perderse pero que puede interesar al público joven”. 
• La Nación: “Cálido y nostálgico documental por el que desfilan ante una atenta cámara tanto esos veteranos como muchachos idealistas que todavía creen en que las antiguas máquinas pueden ser cantos de sirena para nuevos públicos y están decididos a demostrarlo”.
• Negrowhite.net: “Un film que todo bibliotecario debería difundir y atesorar entre sus bienes más preciados”.
• Hacerse La Crítica 
• Funcinema:“Una pieza valiosa para comprender no solo a un oficio que prácticamente esta desapareciendo sino también para escuchar desde la calidez de los testimonios la reconstrucción del pasado y tener un pequeño vistazo del futuro”.

Director’s Motivation

Pablo Pivetta

Three years ago I bought and old letterpress furniture through an online add. I went to Monte Chingolo to take it without imagining what it would have inside. It was full of half a ton of plumb letters, that if I hadn’t taken would have ended in the garbage as the business was closing.This was the first step that led me towards making this film. 

That was my first contact with the letterpress with plumb and wood, through the anecdotes of the people working with it. There was something about time consended in those furnitures about to be thrown away that got me obsessed.

I began to visit some letterpresses in Buenos Aires that still were adapting the system and spent a lot listening to their stories as well as learning about the job. In a couple of months I had gone through all the businesses resisting, still opened, and decided to put it all together into a movie.

Nicolás Rodríguez Fuchs

I grew up in a family of letterpress men. I spent a lot in the workshop when I was a child. I wanted to become one of them when I grew up. Then I was a teenager and wanted to get away from the family business and studied filmmaking. That was the death note to the business my father had started. One day what I always thought of as something so exciting, became a monotonous worthless job. Something was beginning to miss.

A lot of years later I met Pablo who was obsessed about letterpress at that time. And something inside of me lightened up. Our shared passion drove us through a journey of different workshops. 

Today I feel the duty to document those letterpress workshops that are part of the graphic design history of the country.