Super 8 Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

En otoño de 2017, me reuní a conversar con Federico Windhausen y Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón en el marco de la VII edición del Coloquio Universitario de Análisis Cinematográfico, "El cine en el campo expandido", sobre nuestras investigaciones... more

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- Film Studies, French Cinema, Experimental Cinema, DANCE FILM
- by Kristina Lutscher
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- Film and Video Art, Derek Jarman, Super 8

Punk was visual as much as it was musical. In recent years, art historical research of punk works of art has increased. However, a thorough analysis of punk art's themes, motifs, and methods is still lacking. This article examines infantilism and dilettantism as two key notions within punk art, as illustrated by the collage L'ecole de l'art infantile (COUM Transmissions, 1974) and the super 8 film Das Leben des Sid Vicious (Die Tödliche Doris, 1981). Analysis shows how concepts of childishness, nonconformism and anti-authoritarianism are interconnected both with punk's DIY ethos and its self-identification as a youth movement. Furthermore, the article discusses punk art's circumvention of antithetical concepts, such as failure vs. success, innocence vs. guilt, reality vs. fantasy, skill vs. incompetence.

- by Marie Arleth Skov
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- Art History, Surrealism, Intermedia, Punk Culture

Introductory overview of New Zealand artists who began working in film and video between 1970 and 1985, following their work up to 2010 and beyond. This piece was originally titled A Place Near Here and published in Illusions #35. It has been significantly updated since then. Back issues of Illusions are available from PO Box 6476, Marion Square, Wellington, New Zealand.

- by martin rumsby
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- Visual Music, Video Games, Manga and Anime Studies, Video Art

Reflexão sobre o processo de digitalização de filmes produzidos na Paraíba no período da ditadura militar brasileira. Artigos de Pedro Nunes, Rubens Machado Júnior, Bertrand Lira, João de Lima Gomes, Fernando Trevas e Lara Amorim. O livro consta de uma filmografia dos filmes digitalizados com o apoio da PETROBRAS e Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB).

- by Pedro Nunes
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- Digitalização, Super 8, Cinema e Memória, Cinema Paraibano
- by Giuseppina Sapio
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- Film Studies, Family studies, Family, Home movies

This paper seeks to analyze and determine the relationship between fiction and reality in the work of the artists group Die Tödliche Doris which consisted of changing members working under the label of the fictional character "Doris" in West Berlin in the 1980s. The work of the group is characterized by a conceptual, often ironic approach which eludes a straightforward representation. The artists choose the format of dry documentary while at the same time acting demonstratively weirdly, and simultaneously challenging and deceiving their audiences. The name-giving illusory figure "Doris" is a de-constructed and absent phenomenon. The concepts and methods of Die Tödliche Doris—carried out in diverse media, ranging from installation, photography, performance, and mail art to painting—often echo those of earlier art movements: the subversive corporeality of Viennese Actionism, the rawness of Art Brut, anarchic Fluxus moments, or absurd Dada word games. This paper investigates the group’s conception of and attitude towards veracity, using the super-8-films Das Leben des Sid Vicious (The Life of Sid Vicious), 1981 and Berliner Küchenmusik (Berlin Kitchen Music), 1982 as cases. Both films juxtapose reality and fiction: Das Leben des Sid Vicious is an obvious scam documentary of the life and death of the (in)famous bassist of the Sex Pistols who is played by a 2-year old boy wearing a swastika T-shirt. The film mixes theatrical eccentricity and a bad-taste horror movie style with a surprisingly touching vulnerability. In Berliner Küchenmusik the deadpan closeness to the day-to-day realism of a woman tidying her kitchen is broken by irritating, surreal and bizarre elements escalating in tune with the song Schuldstruktur (Structure of Guilt) in the background. The paper furthermore takes into consideration the social and cultural situation around 1980, with the island West Berlin at the heart of the cold war conflict and its violent potential and at the same time weirdly cut off from reality, providing a gloomy yet unreal backdrop for the contemporary subculture.

- by Marie Arleth Skov
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- Art History, Surrealism, Visual Arts, Berlin
- by Dan Browne
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- Aesthetics, Film Studies, Experimental Media Arts, Documentary (Film Studies)
- by Tim van der Heijden
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- Nostalgia and Memory, Media and Technology, Super 8, Spinvis

This article attempts to delineate the cartography
of alternative cinematic productions in the region
of Kolkata, that, being a nodal juncture which
shapes the cultural milieu of Bengal, offers the
technological and cultural infrastructures and the
scope for cinephilic engagement crucial to the
production of non-mainstream cinemas. To explore the gradual development of
independent and amateur films in Kolkata, this
article traces the cinephilic culture that permeated
the city with the Super-8 movement.

- by Amrita Biswas
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- Urban Culture, Cinephilia, Super 8

This article reflects on today’s ‘technostalgic’ trend in media culture by examining the various ways in which Super 8 film as a media technology from the past is re-appropriated and remediated in contemporary memory practices. By looking specifically at restorative and reflective forms of technostalgia manifest in the project Bye Bye Super 8 – In Loving Memory of Kodachrome (2011) and the digital smartphone app iSupr8 (2011), the author explores how in contemporary memory practices media technologies not only construct and mediate memories but have also become the objects of memory themselves. While analysing this double mnemonic process – accounting for both the memory construction by the media technology and the reminiscence of the media technology itself – it is argued that we currently witness a new kind of memory practice enforcing an attentive shift from technologies of memory to a memory of technologies.

- by Tim van der Heijden
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- Media Studies, Digital Media, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory
- by Marc Siegel
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- Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Avant-Garde Cinema
- by Giuseppina Sapio
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- Family studies, Adoption, Family Film, Home movies

This paper delineates the cartography of non-fiction cinematic productions in the city of Kolkata, that, being a nodal juncture which shaped the cultural milieu of Bengal, offered the technological and cultural infrastructures crucial to the production of non-fiction films. To explore the gradual development of amateur and non-fiction films in Kolkata, this paper traces the cinephilic culture that permeated the city with the Super-8 movement. The Super-8 movement, that flourished in the 1980s, forms a crucial strand for the theorization of amateur and non-fiction filmmaking in Kolkata.

- by Amrita Biswas
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- Urban Culture, Bengali Cinema, Super 8, alternative film cultures

The Festival de Rock y Ruedas took place in Avándaro, in the suburbs of Valle de Bravo, a small town in Estado de México, on September 11 and 12, 1971. Among the organizers were transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola and the national mass media monopoly Telesistema Mexicano. Avándaro was the culmination of the process of creating a youth culture of consumption that started in the early 1960s and went through several transformations during the next decade.
As part of the project to commercialize youth culture, the mass media tried to impose stereotypes that were reappropriated and resignified by groups of young people, such as “onderos.” Their actions became an obstacle for corporate business plans and turned Avándaro into one of the milestones of the Mexican countercultural movement in the second half of the 20th century.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.731

A review of Hector Hazard's innovative in your face Super 8 Documentaries

- by Dirk de Bruyn
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- Film History, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Artist Film and Video

This article examines a few of the surprising number of significant sf works set in Ohio to illuminate the connection between Ohio and sf. Works explored are: Kurt Vonnegut's _Breakfast of Champions_ and _Deadeye Dick_; Ernest Cline's... more

- by Christopher Sims
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- American Literature, English Literature, Literature, SF Film and Television
- by Guadalupe Lucero
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- Cinema Studies, Estética, Super 8, Cinema Expandido

Dans cet article, nous présentons les résultats de notre travail de recherche autour du cinéma d’amateur et, plus particulièrement, autour de la pratique des home movies en France de 1960 à aujourd’hui. À travers une approche sémio-pragmatique, nous avons tenté de montrer que la réalisation et le visionnage en famille de films d’amateur permettent aux individus de réfléchir à leur rôle et à leur identité au sein du groupe. Les home movies fonctionneraient alors comme des révélateurs de la manière d’être d’une famille. Nous avons nommé méta-famille ce potentiel autoréflexif de la pratique des home movies et nous nous sommes appuyés sur des entretiens avec six familles françaises afin d’argumenter notre proposition théorique.

- by Giuseppina Sapio
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- Media Archaeology, Family studies, Family, Home movies
- by Ming-Yu Lee 李明宇
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- Experimental Film, Home movies, Diary Film, Lee Ming Yu
- by Revista Lumina
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- Brazilian Cinema, Film and Animation, Pernambuco, Super 8

in Jeune, dure et pure ! Une histoire du cinéma d’avant-garde et expérimental en France, Nicole Brenez et Christian Lebrat (dir.), Cinémathèque française-Mazzota, 2001, p. 471-472

- by nadine wanono
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- Jean Rouch, Detournement, Super 8