Screening in Nice at Les 23e Rencontres Cinéma et Vidéo 

Thursday, November 24, 20:00

We are showing a short selection from our archive in Nice this Thursday

Snailrun a Nightmare, a film by Selsthilfegruppe Salzburg, Austria, 2004, 3 min.

Nightmare racing with three super 8 spotlights.

So Long, Kodachrome, a film by Jim Granato, USA, 2010, 7 min.

An ode to the Super 8, and the most-rated film of all time. While paying its respects to the format, this original super 8 sound short also pays homage to a landmark 70′ American film.

50 Feet that Shook The World, un film de John Cannizarro, U

Opening evening program.

Thursday, November 24, 20:00

Laure Ecard Space

50 bd saint roch 06300 nice

Free admission


Super 8 Workshop in Nice at the Rencontres Cinema and Video

Super 8 Workshop Friday November 25th 2022

9am/5pm – City Tour – Magnan Space

With Alex Glynn, Thierry Bonnaud and Justyna Ptak
Come and learn the joys of Super 8: filming, scratching and development.
Shooting in Super 8 and film development with the ecological method with “caffenol” in a non-toxic detector for the environment.
From 9am to 5pm with Alex Glynn of London’s Straight 8 and Thierry Bonnaud of Cambridge Super 8 Festival, scratching amateur directly on film, came especially for the Cinema and Video Meetings of Nice, you will wander through the streets of Nice to capture on film the beauty of chance and manipulate the inimitable silver film.
With Justyna Ptak, our development expert, you will reveal the images shot in the Magnan Space photo lab. The result will be shown to the public during the closing session on Saturday, 26th in the evening, at the Jean-Paul Belmondo Cinema.
Registrations: 20 euros/person – 10 euros student fee – Free for members 2022


Maximum of 12 participants.
Info and Bookings: regardindependant@gmail.com
0044+ 6 23 07 83 52


Super 8 workshop – paint and scratch – cameraless animation – 21st Sep 19

Direct scratch and animation on Super 8 film.   Collage with strips of found film cut up and edited with a tape splicer.

Limited to 10 participants.

Come and join us from 2 to 6pm in Cambridge.

We hope to make a collective 3 min masterpiece and we will project it on a Super 8 project by the end of the session. We will teach you what we know. Beginners welcome. Registration https://cambridge-super8.org/contact-us/


Meeting 23th of October 2017

Challenge yourself with Super 8 project, fill an art space with motion and noise, help put on showings and activities.

We have equipment. We have projects. We have dreams.
We need friends and collaborators.
Come and meet us.

Thursday 23th of October 2017 6pm

at the University social club bar (downstairs) on Mill lane, Cambridge or contact us using our contact page.

Everybody welcome !

 


Experimental Art Projection Showcase in King’s Lynn – Sept 29 – Oct 1st 2017

Cambridge Super 8 Group members, Colin Dewar and Chris Mizsak, together with artists Tom and Tony Scott (collectively known as BellArtLabs) will be presenting the results of the #collusionKL R&D project  for large-scale, site-specific public art projection works in the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn.

The work will combine video projections of archive film from the East Anglian Film Archive with graphic animations simulating historical hanseatic trade and tidal data.

Projected onto layered gauze screens to create an immersive, multidimensional experience, the work will also encompass multiple Super 8 film projections of specially shot fenland footage with live screenings of 16mm local amateur film footage from the 1950s.

Where : King’s Lynn Art Centre

When : Sept 29 – Oct 1st 2017 / 7-9pm

More info : http://www.collusion.org.uk/kingslynn


Screening at Pivotal Festival, Sun 13th of Nov 2016

A great selection of films shot on Super 8 about the environment at Pivotal, the Cambridge Festival of change

When:  

Where: Cambridge Museum of Technology

 sttill Warming 2098
Andres Victoreo, Spain, 1 min. (2008)

Bristol Naked Bike Ride 2011
Charlie Blackfield, UK, 5 min. (2011)

Greenhouse effect
Andres Victoreo, Spain, 5 min.

The Boatman
Dylan Howitt, UK, 12 min. (2006)

Pulpwood
Andres Victorero, Spain, 4 min. (2009)

The Ferryman
Giles Perkin, UK, 7 min. (2007)

Wild Rubber
Lily Cole, UK, 4 min. (2015)

 


Fear in the Fens – Sat. 5th Nov 2016 – 5pm

Nasty, brutish and short                Short film screening part of the Fear in the Fens Festival
Grain, Grunge and Gore (+18)
Chris Mizsak from the Cambridge Super 8 Group will present a brief overview of how Super 8 film became a favoured format for low-budget grindhouse horror. The talk will be followed by the second session of Nasty, Brutish and Short—a showreel of bite-size horror flicks by international filmmakers from the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival archive, including a selection of recent award-winning shorts specially submitted for Fear in the Fens.
Perpetuum Immobile – Dir: Marc Marti

A vision from a nightmare… awake or asleep?

Walpurgisnacht – Dir: Patrick Müller

Inspired by a 19th century poem.

Woman and the Ring – Dir: Samuel J. Harford & Jasmine Leivers
An act of greed revisits an woman in old age.

Leftovers – Dir:  Lucas Ostrowski

Meat the new girlfriend’s parents

More Control (Heist and the Accomplice) – Dir:  Steve Daniels

A music video shoot in an abandoned cinema.

Little Red – Dir: Ben Barton
Something unexpected is lurking in the forest.

Meat Head – Dir: Samuel J. Harford & Jasmine Leivers
Winner of ‘Best Film’ at the 2013 Revel-8 Super 8 Film Festival

M is for MARAUDER – Dir: Steve Daniels

Homage to Mad Max and 60s biker films