Thursday 29th January 2009, 7.30pm
Entry: £5/£3

A selection of the very best films screened at The Cambridge Super 8 Film from 2008 this year and a chance to meet some of the film makers including Colin Dewar and Thierry Bonnaud.

Simon Mullen of Cambridge Super 8 will give an introduction to Super 8 and its evolution from home movies to a modern creative platform. He will also give tips on cameras, film stock, and an insight into film materials and technique as well as the digital format that Super 8 filmmaking can complement.

The Lothbury Centre, Church Lane, Weston Colville, Cambs. CB21 5PE

Two different venues, the same set of great Super 8 films!

The Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival presents a night of funny and hilarious short films. Award winning films will be screened!

The evening will be packed with short films (10 min.) and very very short films (20 seconds).

Wednesday 14th of January 2009 – The Portland Arms

Saturday 17th of January 2009 – St-Paul Centre (upperHall), Hills Road

The fun starts at 8pm, entry £4/£3 at each venue.

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Wednesday 29th October, 6.30pm
Entry: £2

The Cambridge Super 8 Group, the brains being the Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival have hooked up with the Cambridge University Social Documentary Film Society to stage a night of documentaries on Super 8.

Award winning films will be introduced by the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival and atalk with filmmakers about the use of the Super 8 format in professional filmmaking will end the evening.

The event takes place at the Law Faculty, Lecture Room LG18, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Road, Cambridge. CB3 9DZ on Wednesday 29th October at 6.30pm. Entrance is just £2.

Friday June 20th 2008, 8pm
Entry: £5/£4

Bad Timing and Cambridge Super 8 present an unmissable opportunity to witness a live performance by this unique artist who has previously screened at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. There’s a full supporting program drawn from the cream of the electronic and experimental music scene in Cambridge, with Jon Lloyd (aka Cockland) confirmed thus far. Expect to be amazed!

Ian Helliwell has been making truly astonishing, sublime Super 8 short films since early 1990’s. His films have a dense psychedelic texture and each is accompanied by a sound track that he creates with electronic musical instruments he builds himself.

Ian Helliwell is heavily involved with the experimental film and electronic music community in Brighton and he was recently awarded the Development Prize at Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival 2008 for his short film ‘Dash Dot’.

Helliwell has produced and developed music, Super 8mm films, electronic instruments, film and music programmes and light show projections for concerts and club nights. Self-taught, operating alone and without funding, he has worked with second hand and self built equipment, producing over 40 short films which have been screened as far afield Europe, USA, and Japan.

His long held interest in electronic sound led him to experiment with building and modifying 9 volt circuitry, and Ian has since gone on to construct a series of ‘Hellitron’ tone generators, each housed in a unique custom box, used to make the soundtracks to Super 8mm films.

In 2007 he designed and built an analogue synth, the ‘Hellisizer 2000’, and is currently making a 10 part series for radio called ‘The Tone Generation’, tracing the development of early electronica across the world.

The Boxtree, Napier Street, Cambridge CB1 1HR
Friday June 20th, 8pm till late
£5/£4 on the door

Sunday 13th April, 7pm
Entry: £4/£3

We’re so excited about this year’s festival that we’re going to give you a second sneaky peek at some of the films that will be featuring at the end of the month.

Join us for some brilliantly inspiring Super 8mm films from around the world and take the opportunity to question some of those directors behind the films.

The Locomotive,
Mill Road,
Cambridge.

Entry is just £4/£3 on the door!

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Sunday 16th March, 7pm
Entry: £4/£3

With the 2008 Festival just around the corner, join us for an exclusive sneaky peek at some of the fantastic Super 8mm films in this years event.

So sit back, relax, and join us for a lazy Sunday evening watching some of the best films on Super 8mm, anywhere!

The Locomotive,
Mill Road,
Cambridge.

Entry is just £4/£3 on the door!

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Wednesday 27th February, 7pm
Entry: free for members/£2

The Cambridge Super 8 Group, the brains being the Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival have hooked up with the Cambridge University Social Documentary Film Society to stage a night of documentaries on Super 8.

The event takes place at the Cambridge University Graduate Union, on 17 Mill Lane on Wednesday 27th February at 7pm. Entrance is free for members and just £2 for non-members.

Some of the directors and members of the Cambridge Super 8 group will be on hand to answer questions and the full line up includes;

What is the Revolutionary Cycle Cinema?
Simon Mullen, UK, 2007, 5 min. – Cambridge Super 8 Group
The green revolution makes them to pedal to generate enough energy to power a cinema show.

A Shift in Perception
(Best film from 2007 Cs8FF)
Dan Marceaux, Australia, 2006, 16 min.
Three vision-impaired women recount their lives, dreams, fears and observations.

The Boatman
Dylan Howitt, Argentina/UK, 2007, 12 min.
A lyrical portrait of a boatman in Buenos Aires as he plies his trade crossing one of the most polluted rivers in the world.

Shikashika
Stephen Hyde, 2008, Peru/USA, 10 min.
A revealing portrait of the lives of three generations ice sellers in the Peruvian Andes.

Foxy Lady in Winterland
(Audience Prize from 2007 CS8FF)
Dagie Brundert, Germany, 2003, 3 min.
“It’s this weird time between the years. Xmas today. Berlin is Siberia. My recent lover was a zero.”

The Ferryman
Giles Perkins, 2007, UK, 7 min.
A day with the Thelwall ferryman rowing his passengers across the post industrial Manchester Ship Canal.

Bike Kill 2005
Nick Golebiewski, 2005, USA, 3 min.
An all day block party in Brooklyn, NY with bike jousting, music, and mutant bikes.

Everything But…
Colin Dewar, 2007, UK, 3min. – Cambridge Super 8 Group
Award winning Super 8mm animation on the life cycle of a cigarette butt.

Dear N.
(Development Prize from 2007 CS8FF)
Chantal Partamian, 2006, Lebanon/France, 8 min.
A letter based documentary recounting dramatic events for a distant friend.

Blink and You Will Miss It
Tony Clarke, 2007, UK, 3 min. – Cambridge Super 8 Group
It’s as if you we there, the Strawberry Fair in 3 minutes.

Sunday 10th February, 7pm
Entry: £4/£3

The Cambridge Super 8 Group celebrate their love for their favourite film medium with – “Super M’8 (pronounced Mate) Project our Passion!” – a fun film night packed with short films about that most confusing of things, Love!

We can’t think of a nicer way to spend the Sunday night just before Valentine’s day, so come on down, get loved up, and watch some amazing short films at:

The Locomotive,
Mill Road,
Cambridge.

Entry is just £4/£3 on the door!

Sunday 16th December, 8pm
Entry: £4/£3

Let the Cambridge Super 8 Group animate Sunday for you with ‘Super Anim-8’, an evening of startlingly good new digital and Super 8 animated short films from all over the UK, Europe and the World, down at The Barfly in Cambridge.

The evening is in two halves, in the first half we screen delightful and delirious digital animated short films and in the second we screen superb and sublime Super 8 short animated films.

And there’s more – following the storming success of ‘Super 8 My Brain’ we again present Q&As with rising Super 8 and Digital filmmakers, giving you a unique opportunity to explore the renaissance of Super 8 film making.

So get yourself to The Barfly and join us on a Super anim-8-ed journey from the history of America via crazy light abstractions to the history of a single cigarette butt.

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Friday 9th November, 8pm
Entry: £4/£3

It’s Halloween madness with Super 8 My Brain, a night of spooky short films presented by the Cambridge Super 8 group; freaky, funny and frightening films that will make you sleep with the light on!

The night is in two parts. First we have digital short films from local and not so local filmmakers. In the second we will show spooky Super 8 shorts from all over the world that were submitted to Strawberry Super 8 2007 together with Q&A’s with some of the filmmakers.

So get on down to The Boathouse at Mitchums Corner on Friday the 9th of November for a night of scary shorts.

Age Restriction: 18+