Helvetica

Until watching the film, I had never realized how much the font Helvetica was used. It's clean and simple font strangely varies for different logos and companies.  It seems like the perfect font.  Will there ever be another font that will over come Helvetica?
Helvetica seems to provide everything a type face should offer. Simplicity, sharpness, professionalism, and style. It seems the only way any other font could stand out is through bad design. It's odd how there is no longer a competition in typography, there's only Helvetica as the winner.
The film's bold move to do a documentary on something so specific was successful. Wouldn't it be more interesting to have done a longer documentary on just the topic of typography? Perhaps have gone into the stories of Verdana, or the dreadful Comic Sans?
I do feel more educated after watching the documentary.  I feel I have a much stronger grasp on the importance on typography, and how to look upon type.  Maybe this will help improve my eye on good and bad design.

"Decasia" Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison's avant-garde use of aged film can be described in one sense, eerie.  It took me a while to realize why the film was so creepy.  The music definitely helped to distinguish the mood of the piece but there were other elements to support it.  What really got to me was what was actually happening to the film and how it related to the scenes in the film.  The blurs and spots act as being viral, or an infestation. There was a feeling that the characters shown were meeting a grim fate. As if they were dying along with the decay of the film.  Specifically, as if they were apart of an epidemic.  Perhaps, Morrison is trying to make commentary on the death of classic cinema in the new age.