Schlagwort: super 8

Rosenkohlfilm / Brussel Sprout Film

My friend Judith visited me and on a wine-fuelled evening, we came up with a crazy film idea involving Brussels sprouts… developed in Brussels sprout juice, of course.
The background is this: every year at the Hamburg Short Film Festival, there is a category called ‘Flotter Dreier’ (Threesome): films up to 3 minutes long on a specific theme. The theme this year is ‘3’.
Our Brussels sprouts film is called “3 Leute, die 3 Minuten auf TriX 3 Mal Rosenkohl verfilmen” / “3 people filming Brussels sprouts 3 times in 3 minutes on TriX”. Total nonsense but lots of fun. At the moment the film is being digitized. Coming later … watch out!

Paulinenaue Paulinenaue Paulinenaue

Paulinenaue Paulinenaue Paulinenaue Kilom Kilom Kilom Kilompompom Gun
A nonsense film, perhaps.
This Super 8 cassette (Kodak Plus-X) lay forgotten in my possession for 15 years until I developed it. That’s why the film is so faded, damaged and knackered!

Click here to watch it on Vimeo!

Norgaardholz – Film

I made a very short film recently when I spent a wonderful week at my mother’s at the Baltic Sea in August.
I remember … a timeless feeling lying in the sand in the sun … and the Baltic Sea was for once in my lifetime not too cold to swim!

Here’s the film!

More Old Films: “Country Baby”

“Country Baby”: Silke on the countryside in the middle of flowers explaining the dangers of Wühlmäuse / voles and the pleasure of taking a break in the hammock.
Thanks to the Filmuniversität Potsdam-Babelsberg (and Benjamin who is writing his master about my films!!) … I have a few more freshly scanned films now online!! The old forgotten ones …
Country Baby, click here to watch it on Vimeo!

More Old Films: “Unfelle und Nachladen”

“Unfelle und Nachladen”: untranslatable German, partly nonsense, playing with words and letters.
Thanks to the Filmuniversität Potsdam-Babelsberg (and Benjamin who is writing his master about my films!!) … I have a few more freshly scanned films now online!! The old forgotten ones …
Unfelle und Nachladen, click here to watch it on Vimeo!

Old Films New Scans

Recently I had the opportunity to have several of my old almost forgotten super 8 films scanned! Very hi res and for free as part of a film studies research project. The sound is bad, taken from the ridiculously slim magnetic tape on the film … I will have to re-edit it.

Here comes the first film, a little poem in 2 words called “ABE”, from 1989 … click here!!

A Flock Of Flickers – An Invitation

Online webinars from January 2025 regularly (if I can manage it) every last Sunday of the month, starting in January 2025.

“We love Super 8 / we are at the very beginning and don’t know much / we are in the middle and are enchanted / we want to know everything about Caffenol and ecological developing, cameras and film stock / we have experience and specific questions … let’s connect!

We meet every last Sunday of the month! On the ZOHO platform, which is similar to ZOOM. I moderate and tell and show tricks and film examples … you have the opportunity to bring in your own topic / problem / question. It’s something like a virtual mini workshop, a webinar in a small group, with personalised advice and assistance.

The entrance fee is 30 € / $ via PayPal, you will be emailed an access code. You can register your topic / problem / special interest in advance.
Time: Europe 19:00, USA around noon, but this can be flexible if someone from other regions of the world wants to participate. The duration will be 1 hour, probably longer. Language: English.

Let’s flicker!”

A Flock Of Flickers #1 will take place on 26 January 2025!

A Bag of Fleas

Another workshop … but: this time my students were very young teens between 12 and 14 years old! Something I never did before …

(my 2 days super 8 filming and eco developing was part of a 4 days advanced training course for film curators who introduce young people to filmmaking, hosted by the Düsseldorf Film Museum!)

A wild bunch! A bag of fleas! Exhausting but also fascinating how the young got into it: watching experimental short films, collecting ideas, writing into their copybooks, learning how to use a super 8 camera, filming their ideas … with the help of us 6 adults of course … and then mixing coffee and fruit juice developer!

Honestly … I prefer students in their twenties, but it was an awesome experience!!!

Im blassen und nassen Hochmoor / Wuthering Heights

Jedes Jahr gibt es an verschiedenen Orten auf der Erde einen Kate-Bush-Flashmob. Leute verkleiden sich wie sie in ihrem Video: rotes Kleid, schwarzer Gürtel, rote Blume. Und tanzen die lustige Choreographie zu “Wuthering Heights”, ihrem ersten Hit, den sie schon mit 16 geschrieben hat und der mich immer wieder von den Socken haut. Ich tanze alleine. Oh Heathcliff! Hat mal eine das Buch (von Emily Brontë) gelesen? Grandios dramatisch! Hooo it gets dark …

Every year there is a Kate Bush flash mob in various places around the world. People dress up like her in her video: red dress, black belt, red flower. And dance the funny choreography to ‘Wuthering Heights’, her first hit, which she wrote when she was 16 and which always knocks my socks off. I dance alone. Oh Heathcliff! Has anyone ever read the book (by Emily Brontë)? It’s terrificly dramatic! Hooo it gets dark …

Filmed with super 8 (expired Agfa Moviechrome)

The link to the film on YouTube

Gesäuse!

And this is what happened in Austria recently:
For days now it has been raining permanently night and day and snowing 100 m higher …
I am here in the wetlands haha part of a small family-like minifestival (called »Enchanted Garden«) giving a workshop. All was supposed to happen outside in the huge natural park called »Gesäuse« but all is now happening inside … feeling sorry for the festival but people are in a good mood (we’re talking about 15 people, not more, it’s really nice and tiny).
How can I translate »Gesäuse«? Something making a whispering sound like the running water of the river, of the falling rain, of the wind in the leaves …
We’re filming in a small group, just 6 people and me, developing in a soup of what nature gives us. Cheers!
You can see some results here on YouTube!