The best films shot for Straight 8 will be shown. One Super 8 cartridge, one brilliant idea, 3 min, no retake !
The fun starts at 8pm, so come and join us for a great night of inspirational shorts. We will show also some of the films we made at the Cambridge Super 8 group.

   Come and have a chat, watch some brilliant films and find more about the Super 8 format around a drink !

         Friday 30th March 2012 at 8pm
at CB2 cafe basement Norfolk Street ,Cambridge.
Entry: £4/£3

Sunday 4th of March, 7pm – We will show rare films from original Super 8 reels @ the Prince Albert

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The fun starts at 8pm, so come and join us for a great night of inspirational shorts.
Friday 24th Feb 2012 at 8pm
at CB2 cafe basement Norfolk Street ,Cambridge.
Entry: £4/£3

We will launch the Super 8 Olympiades, so join us if you want to find out more.

Join us in Ely (Cambridgeshire) for an evening of Sci-fi classics.

All shown from our Super 8 projector !!

At the Prince Albert Pub, Silver street in Ely from 6pm

Click here to download the poster

4pm- 19th of November 2011 – More info http://www.cine-city.co.uk/films/small-wonder-super-8/

So Long, Kodachrome
Jim Granato / 2010 / United States / 7 mins
So Long, Kodachrome is an ode to super 8, and the most beloved film stock every made. While paying huge respects to the format, this original sound super 8 short also pays homage to an American 70′s landmark film.

Putain Lapin / Bitch Rabbit
Guérin van de Vorst / 2010 / Belgium / 10 mins
Putain Lapin is about the meeting between a whore and a bear, that she thinks is a rabbit. It’s also about a desolate place where people get lost and leave by charters.

Enterprisse
Mauricio Quiroga Kiro / 2010 / Bolivia, Argentina 9 mins
The man, the city, the machine. Once in the game, follow the instructions.

Collide-o-scope
Naren Wilks / 2010 / United Kingdom / 3 mins
Using four super-8 cameras a man in a white room replicates himself. He and his clones have until the cartridges in the cameras run out before they disappear.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 8pm @ The Commissary.

We will present some films we have shown at our past events and have an informal talk about our activities, projects and how you could get involved.   Free event

HOME Movie Day 2011

Home Movie Day has grown into a worldwide celebration of these amateur films, during which people in cities and towns all over meet their local film archivists, find out about the archival advantages of film over video and digital media, and—most importantly—get to watch those old family films!

Please come along our next event. Bring your films ( 16mm, 8mm or Super 8 ) or come to enjoy some of the films from our group archive.

Cambridge (UK) – Central Library

7 Lion Yard
Cambridge CB2 3QD
from 10am to 5pm.
It is this year part of a festival with the BBC “Reel History of Britain, our past through film”

• Jury Choice
  Putain Lapin by Guérin van de Vorst – Belgium – 10 min.
  

  Funny, smart and sad. Good use of space, good sound design including score, a very compact, surreal story, well acted, shot and edited. This film had moments of both grace and wit, and did not take itself too seriously nor its characters too lightly.

• Development Award
  Enterprisse by Mauricio Quiroga Kiro – Bolivia/Argentina – 9 min.
  

  Excellent use of off screen space, excellent use of sound design. This fiction film felt more like an experimental documentary, or hybrid fiction/ experimental film, one which explores the space of the story with assurance. Excellent shooting and editing. The sequence which transitions from fast carnival cuts to the slow pan down is brilliant.

• U.K. Winner and Audience prize
  Collide-o-scope by Naren Wilks – 2010 – United Kingdom – 3 min
  

  Fun! Superb use of the frame, of the magical conjuring tricks of cinema. Great choreography, great sound, a smart, well-structured film.

• Jury Mention
  • Stadtplan by Reynold Reynolds – Germany – 8 min.
    

    A strong entry to the city essay style, this film could be considered an expanded documentary, an experimental essay, a study in cinematic architecture. The strong visual structure lets the viewer into the film, past language. The split screen served a complex dual purpose: to divide and to connect, moving at moments from one to the other to breathtaking effect. Closely observed details, organic combination of color and black and white.

  • The Day Before Tomorrow by Daniel Villanyi – Hungary – 12 min.
    

    A quiet, tightly focused film filled with emotional intensity, well directed and acted. Grief, acceptance and change are addressed without a single lapse into cliche, and this self assured film moves into the story it tells with strong cinematography and sound design.

  • Trust to Chance and Windfalls by Anja Dornieden- USA/China – 14 min.

    

    A documentary whose style and warmth is the direct outcome of the filmmakers’ dedication and willingness to observe, learn and explore. The direct cinema style of the images contrasts nicely with the verbal interview soundtrack, as the filmmaker follows the chess group from New York to China.

If you can help or want to be involved, please contact Lionel at l_laget@yahoo.fr or come to the festival and meet Lionel there.