Film's that used super 8 film and was to inspire you you

[nikonr10]

As super 8 film is now 50 years old , what was the film that inspire you to fall in love with this small gauge ?
I know the list could be endless ! so let's put it down to that one film that set you off on this road .

For me it was in Paris / Texas that home movie with Father / Mother/Son ," when there where happy ". Really bring's out the power of the home movie and how life can change's .

Robby Muller camera work .

[carllooper]

I saw a Super8 film called "Einstein", by a filmmaker named "Simon White", in 1975 (or thereabouts).

I had already been shooting a few rolls of Super8 on a borrowed camera, but this was the first Super8 film I'd actually seen in the flesh. It was an amazing work. It was a conceptual bio pic of sorts, only 15 or 20 mins along, but it had such a wild and strange beauty to it, and a sensory logic unlike anything with which I was otherwise familiar. It was made within sets specifically constructed for the film, but not in any way that you would call natural or believable. In fact you would call it completely unbelievable. I particularly recall one scene in a cockpit of an aircraft where the set is simply a minimilist indicator of such. Like a comic book but even more rarified. And the lighting was great (a lot can be done with lighting). The pilot is engaged in a bombing raid on some city. He reaches down out of shot and lifts up an aerial bomb (complete with fins) which he throws out the cockpit window. It's a nuclear bomb.

There was in this film a completely different way of making films that could be done, not only cheaply, but in a way that just cut through all of the cobwebs woven by all the hyper-ordinary work with which I'd been hitherto inundated.

One could argue my appreciation of this film was just the result of being a highly impressionable fourteen year old seeing any Super8 film for the first time. But being that child, recalling it now, 40 years later, it remains as competitive, compelling and fresh now as it did then. And that's with 40 years of hindsight behind me.

Many more superb Super8 films followed this experience. There was a wild anarchic approach to film making in the 70s, and into the 80s, with all sorts of wild ideas being pursued. No barriers. Super8 provided a way of doing that. To think not just outside the box, but where the concept of a box wasn't even there in the first place. A wild freedom. To pursue the most outrageous trains of thought and practice.

C

[S8 Booster]

S8 porn movies maybe... really not but they were available in the 70s.

BUT my "door opener" to what became S8 was my friend´s family home R8 movies shown on a silent projector. now, i found that magic and a door was opened to film making in general. my tool of choice became the S8 format and the direct sound recording with an absolutely phenomenal sound recording camera the Canon 1014 XL-S which produced state of the art imagery with superb sound. for home movie making i exercised to try to camera edit imagery to harmonise with the sound (cut when no one is speaking or other "noises" is absent). i became quite god at this and i admire my home movies highly.

well.... shoot film still..