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⏲ Duration: 3 min 25 sec
✓ Published: 12-Aug-2018

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An Abstract Western by Judith PoiriernLetterpress printing on 35 mm film stock, 5 min 25 s, 2015nnSetting West was made using original printing materials from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as wood type, borders and stereotypes of “Cowboys and Indians”, trains and bison. These words and images were printed directly onto 35mm clear film stock at eminent letterpress studios in North America: the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, the Center for Book and P