Venezia Stampa,
Documentary

Through one of the last letterpress printers in Venice, another way of seeing the city.

Direction, sound and editing
Eustache de Barmon
Interview and photography
Constance Fonta
Assistance and graphic design
Tristan d’Anterroches
Voices
Diego de Barmon
Maud Berahya-⁠Lazarus
Project
Self-⁠produced documentary
Category
Documentary
Year
2026
Length
8:24
Format
16:9
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Luca is one of the last letterpress printers in Venice, heir to a craft that goes back to Aldus Manutius. In his workshop he still sets type by hand, letter by letter, while around him the city is torn between mass tourism and digital printing. Behind the machines there is a life: a typesetter father, the smell of ink breathed in since childhood, and a November night in 2019 when the water took everything. Luca reopened. At 61, he wonders who will run the presses after him.

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