Now in its 34th year, the United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival is the largest and longest running juried festival of its kind in North America. The festival encourages any genre (including animation, documentary, personal, narrative, and experimental) made on Super 8mm/8mm film, Hi 8mm/8mm, or digital video. We invite you to discover cutting-edge works created by passionate filmmakers with these small-gauge media formats. The 34th annual United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival will be held on February 19+20, 2022. Special thanks to all of the jurors; Professors Susan Martin-Marquez, Meheli Sen, and Alan Williams of the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies; Amanda Gorsegner and Isha Vyas of Middlesex County Arts and History; The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway of the International Center for 8mm; Phil and Rhonda Vigeant and Jaclyn Vigeant Melo of Pro 8mm; Sara Leavitt of OVID/Icarus Films; Bill Harris of Share and Harris; Irene Fizer; and The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC friends, sponsors, donors, interns, and staff for making this festival possible.
Polavision, An Instant Failure – Álex López (Ferrol, Spain)
The instant-processing Super-8 Polavision was one of the most important technological achievements of the 20th century. This documentary describes the process, with interviews with those responsible for its development, with sequences shot on this additive colour cinema system for the first time in the 21st century. In Spanish, subtitled. 2021; 20 min.
- Year2021
- Runtime20 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountrySpain
- DirectorÁlex López
- ScreenwriterÁlex López
- ProducerIgnacio Benedeti
- FilmmakerÁlex López
Now in its 34th year, the United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival is the largest and longest running juried festival of its kind in North America. The festival encourages any genre (including animation, documentary, personal, narrative, and experimental) made on Super 8mm/8mm film, Hi 8mm/8mm, or digital video. We invite you to discover cutting-edge works created by passionate filmmakers with these small-gauge media formats. The 34th annual United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival will be held on February 19+20, 2022. Special thanks to all of the jurors; Professors Susan Martin-Marquez, Meheli Sen, and Alan Williams of the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies; Amanda Gorsegner and Isha Vyas of Middlesex County Arts and History; The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway of the International Center for 8mm; Phil and Rhonda Vigeant and Jaclyn Vigeant Melo of Pro 8mm; Sara Leavitt of OVID/Icarus Films; Bill Harris of Share and Harris; Irene Fizer; and The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC friends, sponsors, donors, interns, and staff for making this festival possible.
Polavision, An Instant Failure – Álex López (Ferrol, Spain)
The instant-processing Super-8 Polavision was one of the most important technological achievements of the 20th century. This documentary describes the process, with interviews with those responsible for its development, with sequences shot on this additive colour cinema system for the first time in the 21st century. In Spanish, subtitled. 2021; 20 min.
- Year2021
- Runtime20 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountrySpain
- DirectorÁlex López
- ScreenwriterÁlex López
- ProducerIgnacio Benedeti
- FilmmakerÁlex López