super8society

AV Club Screening

2008-02-08T15:35:00.000+01:00

Samuel Fuller - The Naked Kiss

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

Next Super 8 workshop

2007-10-15T17:31:00.000+01:00

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

2007-10-08T15:13:00.000+01:00

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

2007-10-03T10:43:00.000+01:00

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

2007-10-02T17:20:00.000+01:00

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

Autumn 2007 Workshops informal meeting

2007-10-02T14:51:00.001+01:00

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

2006-10-31T15:19:00.000+01:00

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

2006-10-23T13:24:00.000+01:00

Brakhage on Brakhage III

Get some of this!

2006-10-18T12:17:00.000+01:00

Films and Processing

2006-10-18T11:12:00.000+01:00

For your first (or second or third...) venture into the world of super 8 you should buy yourself a cartridge ot two of Kodak's new Ektachrome 64T (7280) and get out there and shoot your 3 minutes worth. I suggest you buy your film process paid (Widescreen Centre) and you will have it back about two weeks after posting. Once you have seen what sort of result this stock gives you can think about processing your next film yourself in our tank. This won't save you any money, but it will be an achievement if you get it right and of course you can go from camera to projector in less than an hour! (Some people can't even manage that with DV).
All the links you need are here.

Stanley Productions (non process paid colour and monochrome)

Widescreen Centre (process paid Ektachrome 64T)

Super8nl (alternative stocks, bespoke processing and all round fount of knowledge)

Other links can be found in the sidebar.

First Meeting October 4th

2006-09-26T16:57:00.000+01:00

Fine Art students and staff - the first meeting of the Super8Society will be in Room 225 (aka 231 and 232) in Central House, 2pm Wednesday October 4th. This meeting will include a screening of some of this summers more noteable Super 8 initiatives and I will set out the terms for becoming a bona fide University society. This will enable us to apply for funding to buy materials, arrange for guest speakers and organise a few visits elsewhere.
This semesters programme will include workshops in using and processing various filmstocks, buying and using secondhand equipment, cameraless filmmaking, as well as regular screenings of student work.

Hope to see you there.

Something to do this summer

2006-05-22T19:08:00.000+01:00

Looking for something to do during the summer? Why not invest a few pounds in a super 8 camera and some of the new colour stock from Kodak or Fuji and start making some short films. Then you will be ready for the super 8 workshop next semester. Follow the links on this blog for further information.