Touch Type

70:00 minutes / 16mm / 2023

A hybrid documentary that presents surviving letterpress practices as an extended metaphor to explore the importance of our physical closeness to the everyday language we use. Through a focus on diverse lived experiences, the film looks to highlight what might be lost or gained in the transition from tangible to digital interactions with language and the wider world.

Work in progress.

This moving-image work has been supported by National Trust for Scotland and Connecting Threads residency programme at Robert Smail’s Print Works, Innerleithen.