The first films were made around 1890, and film was used for about 90 years until video technology took over. Video is now obsolete, and films are now recorded on chips. For non-professional users, there were the so-called “substandard films” relatively early on, which were much cheaper, especially financially, and which found their widest distribution from 1965 with the Super 8 format. And you know what the situation is like for hobby filmmakers today …
Today there are countless rolls of Super 8 film in cupboards and boxes all over the world, whether home-made or bought, and the vast majority of them are probably slowly being forgotten.
We want to change that!
In this project we will deal with Super 8 films. The basic idea is to make a new film out of existing films and sequences of all kinds. This means that we will have to find material, sift through it, write a script, find the right sequences and then cut them together (in real life, not on the computer!). We will write text, speak it, record it and sychronize it. Some elements may have to be reshot (… which is now unfortunately time-consuming, tedious and expensive…). In the end, the aim is – hopefully – to create a work that can be performed.
The whole thing is an experiment, and it is not entirely clear how it will end…