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The two genres don't always sit well together, and the retro lens flare becomes wearing, but Super 8 has character and charm, especially in the three young leads, whose plans to make a super-8 zombie movie are scuppered by the arrival of a dangerous creature.
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Much of it was shot with super-8 film, only the head-and-shoulder segments being recorded in the television studio. 29 min.
G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011
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Much of it was shot with super-8 film, only the head-and-shoulder segments being recorded in the television studio. 29 min.
G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011
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Contemporary movies are a hell of a lot denser than early films, which tend to seem glacially paced to modern viewers, because we all understand a series of visual shortcuts: Wavy-screen or sepiatone or super-8 tone means “flashback”; overhead view of a plane on a map means the character is traveling somewhere, etc.
The Wisdom of Clowns 2009
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Preferably super-8 mm transferred to digital and then manipulated on a computer.
New Play, Need Filmmaker to Complete It | Living the Liminal 2008
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Preferably super-8 mm transferred to digital and then manipulated on a computer.
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As I swaddled my Betsy Wetsy doll I felt quieted, holy, actually, and my transfigured face and very changed demeanor captured on super-8 by my dad pulled my little brother Harry to play Joseph and Dana too, a barnyard animal, into the trance.
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My two favorites - "The Week Before", a short film about what God does in the week before he creates the world, and "Show and Tell", wherein McKean discusses his filmmaking evolution, from childhood super-8 films to the present.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 (Part 1) 2008
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One of the First Cindy Sherman's super-8 film, 'Doll Clothes' has not been viewed since 1975, the year it was made.
Archive 2008-10-01 The Nag 2008
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I was obsessed with a French camera, Beaulieu, then the Stradivarius of super-8.
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