Guus Bosman

The least interesting movie of the festival was Helvetica, a documentary about the font Helvetica.

The topic "Helvetica" was an nice choice and the movie maker found a lot of different angles to talk about the font. But that was exactly the problem: the movie consisted of nothing but talking heads and this got really boring after the first 30 minutes.

A number of the interviewees were Dutch. In the 1950s Dutch artists used Helvetica in their work and the documentary had interviews with them and footage of Amsterdam.

Gary Hustwit, the film's maker was at the screening, and I feel a bit bad for not liking the documentary. He seemed like a nice guy, and he said he "spent every free minute and very available dollar on the documentary".