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We particularly like point 5... 5. An artificial sense of “perfection” should never be imposed on a remodernist film. Flaws should be accepted and even encouraged. To that end, a remodernist filmmaker should consider the use of film, and particularly film like Super-8mm and 16mm because these mediums entail more of a risk and a requirement to leave things up to chance, as opposed to digital video....
The latest directive from straight 8 head honcho ed... straight 8's 2008 london premieres at were incredible - all the frenzied excitement of the early days of straight 8 but with the quantity of quality films right through the roof and now we're back with our biggest and finest ever selection of artier films screening head to head with all 13 of the best films of the year as seen at cannes film festival...
Call for footage from Will at Wellpark Productions... We are currently producing a film for Channel 4's Cutting Edge documentary strand exploring the lives of 8 men born on the same day as Prince Charles. We are using their voices to piece together a very personal history of the last 60 years of British life. This is not a film about Prince Charles - it's a film about a generation who grew up in the...
MONO NO AWARE is not a film festival; its focus is the cinematic experience. Inspired by the unique qualities of live performance and viewing film prints, it encourages live music, theatrical performance, audio and additional visuals to accompany the film piece. MONO NO AWARE is open to experimental filmmakers, fine artists, poets and musicians; to any and all persons working or interested in making...
Click to watch our single cartridge film, 'buttoned' Regular readers will know that as well as enthusing about Super 8mm we also actually make films! This year, along with 174 other hopefuls, we entered the grand-daddy of all single cartridge Super 8 competitions, straight 8 . Our semi-autobiographical film 'buttoned' was (thankfully) one of the 75 screened last month as part of the Rushes Soho Film...
The image above is a still from a short clip on Vimeo to test indoor lighting using Kodak Super 8 Ekatchrome 64T. Cick the image to see that with the addition of a couple of lights E64T looks brilliant indoors!
We're thrilled to see our cousins north of the border have joined the mighty brethren... http://www.super8super8.com/ ...welcome! See their next Edinburgh workshop (22/08/08) - here
Come to the Echo Park Film Center for a hot selection of 50 foot wonders - 15 films from the 2007 (and beyond) attack of the 50 foot reels. WHAT: 15 of the best in-camera edited Super 8 films from the ATTACK of the 50 FOOT REELS WHEN: Thursday August 21st at 8pm WHERE: Echo Park Film Center 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles, CA 90026, USA (Note: includes our our own 2007 Flicker...
EXP24 in association with Lumen presents a weekend of practical introductions to two very different moving image formats (Super 8 and HD). The work produced over the weekend will be showcased in Leeds on Sunday 14th September as part of the Ways of Looking programme. Re-form(at): Super 8 workshop Saturday 30th August, 10am-5pm EXP24 studio & Project Space @ East Street Arts Patrick Studios, Leeds This...
Our summer holiday/interlude is over, our batteries are recharged with Mediterranean sun and now we're home to rain, rain and more rain... this is not good shooting weather (just like last year)!
There are still stocks of the fantastic Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival T-shirt available directly from the festival website (under Merchandise). Show your support for one of Europe's best Super 8mm festivals with this stylish double printed tee and with prices at only £12 plus postage you'd be foolish not to be the best dressed small film geek on your block. Just imagine the admiring looks you'll...
From our chums in the Szeged Super 8 Group , Hungary... Do not forget that 08/08/2008 is the date of the First International Super 8 Day, so that day at 08:08 pm (in your time-zone) project (minimum) 8 minutes of super 8 films (in and to anywhere)! We hope that from Szeged, through London and Los Angeles to Kathmandu, everywhere will be an super 8 performance! Document the action and put up to your...
It's amazing how far the resurgence of Super 8 is spreading, and the latest news comes from Turkey. Noyan ve Noyan Ltd has started providing Super 8 film services with the explicit aim of contributing to the growth of the small gauge film making community. With reasonable film prices, Noyan ve Noyan wants to encourage young enthusiasts to produce their projects with Super 8 films and they also have...
(Click to watch in Flash or Quicktime) We've featured the Super 8mm work by Brighton's Bob Jaroc before - his work for Plaid and the Go! Team is remarkable and his visual style really pushes the small film medium. When Bob got in touch with us and asked if we wanted to push what we could do with the podcast - we bit his hand off. Dowa Mondai - Assimilation Issues is a short film which we're playing...
