In the run up to the 3rd Cambridge International Super Film Festival in 2009 we're going to be staging a number of special film and preview nights to get you in the mood.
Join us and get a taster of just what Cambridge Super 8 is all about - we'd love to see you there!
Saturday 20th February 2010 @ 7.30pm, Newcastle
The best films of last year festival will be screened in Newcastle (UK) at 7.30pm at the Star and Shadow Cinema.
www.starandshadow.org.uk
Stepney Bank
Newcastle upon tyne NE1
Sunday 7th February 2010 @ 8pm
Portland Arms
129 Chesterton Road
Cambridge, CB4 3BA
It's horror 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. We will show spooky Super 8 shorts from all over the world together with Q&A's with some of the filmmakers. At the interval, special musical guest: Will Kevansa.
So get on down to The Portland Arms on Sunday the 7th of February for a night of zombie shorts.
Age Restriction: 18+
An evening of 20 short films with Super 8 master Norwood Cheek.
This is the first Cambridge appearance by this no-budget genius. Don't miss this opportunity to discover his work and meet him!
The event will be located on 47 Norfolk Street - CB1 1HT Cambridge
The Cambridge Super 8 Group, have hooked up with the Cambridge University Social Documentary Film Society to stage a evening of documentaries on Super 8.
Award winning films will be introduced by the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival and a talk with members of the Cambridge Super 8 group about the use of the Super 8 format in professional filmmaking will end the evening.
The event takes place at the:
We're just about sorted for our 2009 festival, but we thought we take a night off and give you a sneaky peek at some of this year's selection. We're also showing some of the films we just couldn't fit in the programme!
Portland Arms, Mitcham's Corner / Milton Road, Cambridge
Click here to download the poster.
Even though we're busy finalising details for this year's festival we thought we'd take some time out and give you a sneaky peek at some of the great Super 8mm films that we'll be showing. The fun starts at 8pm, so come and join us for a great night of inspirational shorts.
Portland Arms, Chesterton Road, Cambridge
Click here to download the poster.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.
Click here to download the poster.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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:
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.
Click here to download the poster!
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.
