My celluloid adventure started in June 2013. After years of filming with DV and DSLR cameras, I was tempted to try something completely different. One day I came across the interesting Lomokino crank camera for 35 mm film. Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul had previously shot with it the stunning experimental film Ashes – the result inspired me and encouraged me to try it myself.
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Weihnachten 2016 bekam ich im Rahmen der “Schmalfilmwichtelei” im Schmalfilm-Internetforum eine Super-8-Kassette ohne Label aber dafür mit Belichtungshinweisen und einschliesslich Do-It-Yourself-Entwicklung vom Mitforenten Sandro Proske geschenkt.
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In Canada, two film festivals specifically aimed at small format film will once again take place in the first quarter of this year.
The 8fest will be held in Toronto for the twelfth time on the last weekend of January.
A few weeks later and a few thousand kilometers further west, there will be the 27th edition of the Artifact Film Festival (formerly the $100 FilmFestival) in Calgary at the beginning of March.
Both festivals also have Super 8 films from Germany in their program:
In Toronto, my film Am Zeppelinfeld will show. In Calgary, Katzenlotto by Dagie Brundert gets shown as well as L ‘homme et la mer by Patrick Müller.
In Saxon Frankenberg, a Super 8 workshop will take place in June 2019. Five participants learn with filmmaker Patrick Müller the handling of a Super 8 camera and the development of the film to the negative with the self-produced organic developer Caffenol. Afterwards begins a colorful ramble through Frankenberg, where everyone can capture his view of the city on the Zschopau river during the State Garden Show. The next day, all of the films will be developed together, will also be projected onto the big screen of the beautiful Welt-Theater cinema on the 22nd of June 2019. Are you ready for the analogue coffee-movie revolution?
More information and registration details can be found here. The workshop will be held in German and English.
## UPDATE 17.01.2019: 1 place available ##
Die Anonymen Analogiker des Filmvorführerforums trafen sich auch 2015 für ein Wochenende in Kreuzberg, um ihrem Hobby zu frönen. Diesmal verteilte ich sechs S8-Kassetten beladen mit Fomapan R100, die nach der Entwicklung dann von Thorsten zu dieser schmissigen Collage verarbeitet wurden.
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Ektachrome is back! Since October 2018, the eagerly awaited Super 8 color reversal material has finally hit the market. You can already read in many film tests that the new emulsion provides wonderfully fine-grained pictures and in particular realistically reproduces skin tones. But how do different cameras behave with the new film?
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I wrote the following article in August 2015 and then never published it for some reason.
Nevertheless, it has not become less interesting, because it shows that Wittner would still be able to produce DS8 film – provided, of course, that they can find unperforated 35 mm film.
Wenn man durch die Läden läuft oder im WWW herumklickt, findet man oft interessante Artikel, die z.T. auch sehr preisgünstig sind. Aber taugen diese Produkte auch etwas?
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The examined camera has the serial number 35933; With Pentovar, No. 6355608. On the back of the selenium cell I find as confirmation “ELECTROCELL Dec”. Stamped in 1963. The production year can therefore be derived from the serial number. On the inside of the case, the number 1675 is engraved. Series 1, serial number 675.
The cell originates from the “Electrocell-Gesellschaft Falkenthal & Presser”, founded in 1933 Berlin-Dahlem, the moving-coil instrument perhaps from Erlangen.
Digital synchronous sound for 8 and 16 mm film, finally made easy!
Are you tired of projecting silent films? Did you ever consider one of those old school methods with magnet tape and proprietary synchronisation devices that looked (and smelled) like the 70s?
No need for this anymore.
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