7th Szeged International Super 8mm Festival, Hungary

[Thierry]

Call for entries for 7th Szeged International Super 8mm Festival, Hungary

11-14 September, 2008

Entries for the 7th International Super 8mm Festival, Szeged (Hungary) are now accepted.

Please enter your films by sending an e-mail to super8mmfest@gmail.com with
the name of the director, nationality, the title of the film, length of the film, category (fiction, experimental, documentary, animation, narrative, comedy, film noir, music video, thriller), maximum 3 sentences about the story, the year of producing.


The 7th International Super 8mm Festival aims to be a networking festival for the Super 8 community and film lovers. It accepts only films originally shot on the Super 8 film format.
Films made in languages other than English should have English subtitles.


Deadline for application: 20th of August 2008.
Please send your film (on DVD) to us till this date!

For information visit http://www.myspace.com/s8mm, http://www.super8mm.hu
or contact super8mmfest@gmail.com

Address: RÓZSA Péter, 6721 Szeged, Római krt. 40., Hungary



The Super 8 Movement and Festival in Szeged, Hungary

The evolution of film culture has reached a stage which can be characterized by the renaissance of old techniques. Professional filmmakers never gave up using simple technologies, and low-budget systems sometimes prove to be a more suitable device of artistic expression.

The techniques and technologies Super 8 filmmaking uses make it a special category within filmmaking. It is little known today that the basis of home filmmaking was Super 8. Super 8 culture has spread through Western Europe in the past decades, several film clubs and festivals are a proof of its popularity.

Both in Hungary and abroad, mainly film workshops in university clubs and smaller film festivals popularize Super 8 film culture. Luckily, owing to the post-modern nature of modern visual culture, lovers of film are open to everything, and the base of Super 8 is becoming wider.

Over the last 8 years Szeged has become the capital of Super 8 film culture in Hungary. The Szeged Super 8 group has been collecting films in Hungary since 2000. Today films are arriving even from abroad to be saved and archived. More than 170 hours of film material, from 1941 to 2007; from cartoons through to documentary are to be digitalized and categorized.

Future plans include setting up an open archive on the Internet in which film collections will be available in different categories. It will be a filmmaker's catalogue (of ads, of art films, etc.) from which interested parties will have the opportunity to apply for a license to use the films or part of them. This virtual archive will also be a kind of Noah's ark for memories recorded on 8mm wide celluloid. In order to preserve such memories, it is the films which must be rescued. And the guys with this mission are the Memory Rescue Team.

[Thierry]

I will go to this festival. Hope to see some of you there