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iPhone users rejoice - we have Super 8 convergence! There's a fab little iPhone App available called the Hyper Focus Calculator that will calculate the acceptable focus distance for any aperture and focal distance for a huge variety of cameras and formats. The good news is that the HFD Calculator has just been updated to include 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm formats and is damn useful in the field to make...
The best of the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival will be showing just up the road in Ely at 3pm on Sunday 28th September at the Babylon Gallery. It's just three quid to get in for some small film Sunday fun. More here...
(Click to watch the film) This week on the podcast we've got an unusual footwear feast shot on Super 8 film by Riccardo Simoncini. Made in Prague earlier this year with just 2 cartridges of Kodak Ektachrome 64T using a Bauer C500 XLM camera, Riccardo used a single 1000 Watt Halogen light to illuminate his interiors. Click the image above to watch the film in either Flash or higher quality Quicktime...
Dagie, tree, Nizo Prolific Berlin Super 8mm filmmaker Dagie Brundert has just completed her residency at the Echo Park Film Center in LA, you can read about here trip here... lablog.dagiebrundert.de/ She's also updated here website with a bunch of films from her "Ode to June' series, follow this link; www.dagiebrundert.de/ENews.html
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)!
