AV Club Screening

Samuel Fuller - The Naked Kiss

Tuesday February 12th at 5.30 p.m. Room 222

Next Super 8 workshop

The next workshop will take place in a week's time on Wednesday October 24th. We will be looking at the various methods of transfer to the quicktime format for digital editing (I am hoping to have my Eumig diy telecine machine working for this) and we will also be discussing the various methods for using the good old fashioned projector to show your work.








Endless loop spool fitted to a Westar 2000 35 mm projector.
Projected Picture Trust

First Official Meeting 10th October

Following last weeks informal meeting, this wednesday is the date for the first official session. We will discuss the theme for this semester and finalise the timetable. Subscriptions will be taken as discusssed last week.

Cine City - Brighton Film Festival 2007

Details for this event can be found here!
Anybody interested in attending as a group (possible ticket discount)- please speak to me in room 225.

This is extracted from the website.

The essential qualities of cinema – light, movement, time, space – have been rigorously explored by filmmakers from Vienna. Probably more than any other national artists’ cinema, these Austrian filmmakers have engaged with the materiality of film to create a cinema of purity and intensity.

Experimental and avant-garde cinema has a status in Austria not really found anywhere else in the world. The country made a major contribution to international cinema in the late '50s and early '60s with the first wave of pioneers including Peter Kubelka, Kurt Kren and Valie Export. The ceaseless innovation can be seen in the rich tradition of Austria’s history of radicalism across the arts.

This special programme for CINECITY focuses on two of the key figures of Austrian avant-garde cinema, Peter Tscherkassky and Gustav Deutsch and we are delighted to welcome both of these seminal figures to CINECITY to present masterclasses.

Since 1996, Gustav Deutsch has been scouring film archives around the globe, retrieving fragments of film including test shots and discarded edits and adding them to an ongoing project called Film Ist. “Like a dream book, Film Ist. makes one imagine an archive that Jorge Borges might have assembled.” (Tom Gunning)

Peter Tscherkassky is one of the world’s most acclaimed experimental filmmakers. His spectacular projects such as The Cinemascope Trilogy are marked by a mastery of technique and intense theoretical approach. His cinema is both jubilant and sinister and while acknowledging the end of the celluloid era, his works draw their power through effects that can only be created by film. “There are three factors that influence my work permanently: working with found footage, working directly on the film stock (together with the possibility of physical manipulation of the film) and, in general, the capacity of the film medium to evoke a dreamlike atmosphere”.

Supported by Arts Council England, Austrian Cultural Forum, Sixpack Film and the University of Brighton

E6 processing at Pro8mm

Reminder to myself - this is the link for Pro8mm and E6 processing

Autumn 2007 Workshops informal meeting

Wednesday October 3rd 2.00 pm Room 225

This informal meeting will introduce newcomers to the activities of the Super 8 workshop for this semester. This practical session is available to any interested parties within the University (students and staff). You will be encouraged to produce work using the medium of the super 8 film. We provide equipment and processing. You provide the creative content. This workshop is not connected to your academic programme in any way, so there is nothing to stop you enjoying the splendour of this fascinating film format.
To get you started - follow this link for a list of all the weblinks you will ever need to inform yourself about what is going in the world of Super 8. Surf and be amazed.

OnSuper8

No Workshop Wednesday 1st

Get a camera and go film something. Next week we will be processing B&W Reversal.

Brakhage on Brakhage III