Super8 in Australia

[Mr Blackstock]

I have been busy keeping my site up to date:

http://www.mishkin.yolasite.com/

There have been alot of positive changes in Aussie recently, a lab re-opening, local labs offering new stock at great prices, heaps of cameras on sale on flea bay, and a fantastic local initiative called "Pozible" great idea! Helps with film maker funding.

Viva le Super8 in Australia!

[JeremyC]

Gareth, Encouraging news! Perhaps I should move back home.

Jeremy

[Mr Blackstock]

G'day!

You should! more and more Aussies are coming home, something about English weather and warm beer...

Am also selling my cameras, not all, just enough to help support my new habit...Russian clock work cameras, I drop things alot so it made sense at the time...

Cheers, Gareth

[carllooper]

I have been busy keeping my site up to date:

http://www.mishkin.yolasite.com/

There have been alot of positive changes in Aussie recently, a lab re-opening, local labs offering new stock at great prices, heaps of cameras on sale on flea bay, and a fantastic local initiative called "Pozible" great idea! Helps with film maker funding.

Viva le Super8 in Australia!

Hi Mr Blackstock,

I notice you are in Melbourne Australia. You might be interested in becoming a member of AFW

In addition to NanoLabs run by Richard Tuohy, (and the soon to open NegLab) there are the labs of AFW

http://artistfilmworkshop.org/

Members of AFW (of which I'm one) maintain a fully functional wet lab in the basement of Melbourne University for processing any size film. We also operate one of only a few working 16mm colour additive contact printers in the world - recently restored by Richard Tuohy.

Our lab was the 29th lab to be recognised by the filmlabs.org website:

http://www.filmlabs.org/index.php/lab/

But more than a film lab we're a film culture: we hold film exhibitions (recently at ACMI and Gertrude St Art Gallery), run practical workshops, and otherwise make art with film.


C

[Mr Blackstock]

Hello,

Thanks for the heads up. I recently moved to Ararat and bought a Russian 16mm camera...

I cannot believe I have missed this organisation for so long, I have some catching up to do!

Also I might try and attend a couple of the screenings, I will have to see.

The Neglab press release is out, they are now open for business.

Cheers, Gareth

[milesandjules]

Hi guys
Great to hear you guys have another lab…. and the artist film workshop sounds fascinating.….wished we lived down there. 8O

[carllooper]

Yeah it's great.

Richard Tuohy (NanoLabs) is the workshop's guiding light and source of infinite knowledge! The workshop is a way of encouraging a grass roots, get your hands wet, kind of film making where the emphasis is on art, experimentation and do-it-yourself methodologies, rather than rule based (formula) film making and commercial production workflows. It intersects with what has been called "experimental cinema" in the literature (in film theory/history books).

This Friday we're screening three films at the gallery space (next to where the labs are situated) for anyone interested in coming along:

Desistfilm Cinematheque and Artist Film Workshop present

Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing)

Early Works Screening
The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997)
A breakthrough work of documentary meta-fiction.

These Places We’ve Learned to Call Home (1996)
A shorter work of guerilla documentary.

Friday 6th December doors 7pm for 7.30 start at
Goodtime Studios,
746 Swanston St Carlton
Melbourne, Australia
$7/$10

C

[Apologies for any perception of thread hijacking]

[milesandjules]

Sounds damn great ….will move to Melbourne one of these years.