Film Format: Super 8

  • Metro Reels/Double A Side, The

    While an old, battered 45 RPM record playing garage rock spins, a film projector shows two old Super 8 film reels. One in black and white, one in colour, the reels show the metropolitan downtown in all of its new, old, ugly, and beautiful forms to the sounds of the accompanying record.

  • My Father’s Idea of Heaven

    Using found and manipulated Super 8 footage from his family archives, RM Vaughan explores his late father’s bizarre HAM radio hobby.

  • 50/fifty

    “50/fifty“ uses old home movies and hand-processed film to pay homage to the memory of the filmmaker’s father, who passed away when she was young.

  • Knee for All

    “Knee for All” features gender-free knees for the new generation. Remodelling the seedy-super-eight-basement-porn aesthetic, “Knee for All” displaces the focus on genital- and gender-based-sexuality with universal body parts: the knees. Get what you kneed from “Knee for All”!

  • Le Weekend

    A young, cynical French film student comes to London for the weekend to make a film project for his course. Disillusioned by his London experience, he’s befriended by a stranger who shows him a side of the city, and himself, that he never would have seen. The story unfolds through his Super 8 film footage, and his voice-over narration gives us an insight into his thoughts and feelings throughout the journey.

  • America the Beautiful

    A dark satire of the history of the United States…in under 8 minutes.

  • Fountain of Youth

    The last home movie. Shot on now discontinued Kodachrome 40 super 8 film stock, a cine-poem to time, childhood and the colour of memory.

  • Still Light

    A pregnant moment from Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” triggers this haunting exploration of lineage, memory, and loss. Using a combination of 16mm and Super 8 film, “Still Light” journeys through a forest of old photographs, shadowed by the ethereal voice of Kim Novak.

  • Digital Nudes in Oil

    A short documentary of the artist working in his studio speaking about his painting, modernism, formalism and censorship in Canada from a gay perspective.

  • States

    The deepest recesses of the human psyche. An interpretation of Freud’s theory of transference.