SYNOPSIS
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For seventy years, title sequences have lived right in front of our eyes. Yet the artists who designed them have remained almost invisible.
From Saul Bass’s typographic revolution in the 1950s to the streaming era of Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and Severance, the opening has quietly become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked art forms on screen, as central to a Netflix series as it was to a Hitchcock film.
Created by graphic designers, animators, typographers, composers, directors and studios, these few seconds shape how we enter a story, how we remember it, and sometimes how it enters culture at all.
OPENINGS is a 90-minute cinematic documentary that finally gives this craft the spotlight it deserves. Through original interviews with the masters of the field, from legendary pioneers to the contemporary studios shaping today’s screens, the film traces the history, craft and cultural power of an art form designed to be seen, but rarely looked at.
A film about the people who make us fall in love with a story, before the story even begins.