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 ##
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?
Read MoreWenn 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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John Rizzo plans to open up a new lab for 8 and 16mm film on the east coast.
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Filmemacher und Beteiligte des “Analog Resistance Festivals” hatten am Festival-Samstagvormittag Gelegenheit die Firma Bolex in Yverdon-Les Bains zu besuchen.
Am vergangenen Wochenende fand in Yverdon-Les Bains in der Fanzösichen Schweiz zum erstenmal das “Analog Resistance Festival” statt.
Das Städtchen ist Sitz der Firma Bolex, berühmter Hersteller von 8- und 16-mm Filmkameras.
Super 8 kommt wieder – ein modernes Webportal soll den Retro-Film begleiten
