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Super-8 Marathon Northern Wave Film Festival

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:28:00 +0000

Super-8 Marathon
Northern Wave Film Festival

Super-8 Marathon Northern Wave Film Festival

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Super-8 Marathon
Northern Wave Film Festival

Super-8 Marathon @ Northern Wave Film Festival

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Thanks to all the participating team for a fun-filled successful Marathon!
Congratulations to the winners:
Pétur F. Kjærnested, Sigga Sæm, Kristjana Estée & Lína Thoroddsen!
Kinosmiðja presents you with a roll of super-8, a camera, and processing to make another film!

SIGN UP NOW! Super8 Film Competition info@kinosmidja.is

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info@kinosmidja.is

ONE SUPER 8 CARTRIDGE. NO EDITING

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ONE SUPER 8 CARTRIDGE. NO EDITING:

Straight 8 accepts submissions of all in-camera edited Super-8 films!

NORTHERN WAVE FILM FESTIVAL

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:37:42 +0000

NORTHERN WAVE FILM FESTIVAL

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24hour Super8 Film Competition! Northern Wave Film Festival

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:35:42 +0000

Begins on Friday 2 March and ends on Saturday at noon! Friday will begin with a small introduction to super8 filmmaking, a brief overview of the camera’s, and a description of the rules of competition. Five-Eight teams will be be formed, each given one roll of super 8 film and one camera. Each group will be given one day to come up with an idea and shoot the film (using in-camera editing). Once completed all rolls of film will be turned into Kinosmiðja to be hand-processed. All films in the competition will be screened at Northern Wave Film Festival on the closing day Sunday 4 March. The winning Team will be chosen by audience vote!

Participants are invited to sign up in groups or as individuals by sending an email to info@kinosmidja.com
Look forward to seeing you all there!

"Highly idiosyncratic and deeply creepy, this series as a whole - which includes passages in both..."

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:16:00 +0000

“Highly idiosyncratic and deeply creepy, this series as a whole - which includes passages in both film and video, sometimes shown concurrently - represents the most exciting recent work in the American avant-garde, a saga that raises questions about everything while making everything seem very strange”

- Jonathan Rosenbaum on PEGGY & FRED IN HELL

A post-apocalyptic fairy tale for the modern age PEGGY &...

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:56:00 +0000

A post-apocalyptic fairy tale for the modern age

PEGGY & FRED IN HELL | Leslie Thornton
BÍÓ PARADÍS | 20nov | kl20 | 950isk

“Thornton’s place in cinema history has already been assured for the sole reason that she is the author of Peggy and Fred in Hell.”
(Bill Krohn, Cahiers du Cinéma)

"…just stand in that quicksand for a moment, this shot won’t take long…"

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:47:00 +0000

“…just stand in that quicksand for a moment,
this shot won’t take long…”

- Leslie Thornton

MILLENIUM FILM NewYorkCity

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:05:19 +0100

FIMM/thurs 20 Okt | Bíó Paradís | kl.20 | 950isk

LET’S SEE
Kenneth Zoran Curwood
2011 | 8 min | 16mm transfer to video

MAGIC KINGDOM
Stephanie Wuertz
2011 | 3.5min | Super 8 transfer to video

STUFF OF OUR DREAMS
Lili White
2010 | 3.31min | Super 8mm and video

LOOSE CHANGE
Victoria Campbell
2011 | 5min| Super 8 transfer to video

SPRING/MOTT
Jay Hudson
2005 | 7.11 min |Super 8 transfer to digital

LIBERATION FROM BLINDNESS
Jay Hudson
2008 | 7min | Super 8 transfer to digital

INTIMATE MACHINE
Shona Masarin
2010 | 3.11min | Super 8 transfer to video

FEEDBACK
Shona Masarin
2011 | 4 min | 16mm transfer to video-

********** synopsis/bio ************

LET’S SEE
Kenneth Zoran Curwood likes to take apart cameras and projectors, sometimes successfully re-purposing them to re-photograph films one frame at a time. He then processes the film in home-made chemical mixtures, with often dismal results. Please enjoy.

MAGIC KINGDOM
Waves of neon light unleash a sea of pastel visions. Comprised of footage shot in Disney World while on family vacation. The use of extreme close-up and color negative creates a way of looking that revels in the surface, texture and materiality of the images.
Stephanie Wuertz is an audiovisual artist based in New York working in a wide range of media both appropriated and original. Her work is concerned with uncovering the repressed in vision and by authoritative discourse surrounding the body. She is interested in the intersections between art, technology, and science. She earned her BFA in Computer Arts from Memphis College of Art and received an MA in Media Studies from The New School. She has screened and performed live projections of her work at such venues as White Box Gallery, Microscope Gallery, CoExist Gallery, Cherry Kino Lab, Issue Project Room, The Schoolhouse, Live with Animals, and Anthology Film Archives.

STUFF OF OUR DREAMS
An altered Super 8 clip of flamingos combined with a TV game show to comment on the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster in Louisiana; no doubt, a vain protest against mindlessness. As a car is given away on TV to its winner, a TV news reporter’s voiceover asks how many miles of shoreline have been affected on a particular day after the initial disaster. This question, heard at the end of the film, appears as written text in several languages throughout the piece. Does living the life style of “car-dom” doom our future? Is there anything that we can do to prevent disaster from striking?

Using stylized gestures used as a mode of ritualistic format and screen performance, White’s modus operandi is often an exploration on the subject of relationships of power and repression; often drawing from ancient stories re-contextualized into meditations on the world in which we live and the ramifications of inaction and stagnation. Influenced by art and its history; informed by Eastern philosophy and psychological theory, White’s work has been called “a magical act” with editing technique akin to “automatic” writing

LOOSE CHANGE
Victoria Campbell has made a handful of short films and one feature length documentary titled “House of Bones” about her family. The documentary/memoir has appeared in 4 film festivals, winning two awards. Her short film “MOJAVE” premiered at the Toronto Indie Shorts Film Festival this past August. She is interested in weaving non-fiction documentary with experimental film, finding new ways to tell stories combining narrative with non-fiction and the every day, old film footage with digital footage, past with present. She hopes to create a new genre out of documentary with the tremendous freedom it gives the filmmaker both physically and financially. Currently she is enrolled in the MFA program for social documentary at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has also screened her work at Millennium Film Workshop. Her background is in theatre, poetry and foreign languages.

SPRING/MOTT
LIBERATION FROM BLINDNESS
Jay Hudson is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who specializes in Super 8 film and is active in the New York City film community. He has shown his work at various cinema venues and has collaborated with XYZeta Projects/Jimena Paz on Empty Lot, an interdisciplinary dance performance.

INTIMATE MACHINE
FEEDBACK
Shona Masarin is a New York City based Australian film artist whose work involves the physical, alchemic, and sculptural manipulation of found images and materials to create abstract animations. Finished works have taken the form of of Super 8mm or 16mm films, film performances with live music, and installations; presented at film festivals in Australia, including the Melbourne International Film Festival, and at various alternative art spaces and galleries in Brooklyn.

"The photographic medium is, as a matter of fact, so amorphous that it is not merely unobtrusive but..."

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:20:33 +0100

““The photographic medium is, as a matter of fact, so amorphous that it is not merely unobtrusive but virtually transparent, and so becomes, more than any other medium, susceptible of servitude to any and all the others. The enormous value of such servitude suffices to justify the medium and to be generally accepted as its function. This has been a major obstacle to the definition and development of motion pictures as a creative fine-art form- capable of creative action in its own terms- for its own character is as a latent image which can become manifest only if no other image is imposed upon it to obscure it.””

- Maya Deren

all you need to know for hand-processing movie film

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:31:05 +0100

all you need to know for hand-processing movie film

Home-made Contact Printer!

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:57:35 +0100

Home-made Contact Printer!

L'ABOMINABLE screening at BÍÓ PARADÍS 18sept kl.20

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:07:57 +0100

L’ABOMINABLE – do-it-yourself film lab in Paris –
Film Program in support of Film Labs (79 mins)

Since 1996, L’Abominable has provided artists and filmmakers the tools to develop, rework and edit film material and to strike prints. Over the years, the laboratory has been patiently upgraded with new machines offering new opportunities to all those who work on silver celluloid. Over 250 works have been produced here, whether films in and of themselves, or elements for “live” film performances or art installations.
L’Abominable was expelled this summer, after 15 years, from its premises after a brutal and sudden procedure conducted by the new owner. Another victim among many of the voracious hunger of real estate speculators, its activities are currently on hold. While waiting to find a new space to rebuild this vital laboratory, a few filmmakers have agreed to make available a personal copy of their film in order to form this program.

16mm L'Abominable

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:10:00 +0100

SUNDAY 18 Sept | Bíó Paradís | kl.20.10 | 950isk

L’Abominable is an artist-run film lab. It offers tools to artists and film-makers for developing, reworking, editing and printing super-8, 16mm and 35mm movie film.

Frédérique Devaux
K3 (LES FEMMES)
2003 / 16 mm / color / sound / 5’

Nicolas Rey
TERMINUS FOR YOU
1996 / 16 mm / b&w / sound / 10’

Emmanuel Lefrant
PARTIES VISIBLE ET INVISIBLE D’UN ENSEMBLE SOUS TENSION
2009 / 16 mm / color / sound / 7’

Stefano Canapa
PROMENAUX
2000-2001 / 16 mm / b&w / sound / 12’

Pip Chodorov
CHARLEMAGNE 2: PILTZER
2002 / 16 mm / color / sound / 22’

Olivier Fouchard
NEUF ET DEMI
1999 / 16 mm / b&w / silent / 3’

Martine Rousset
MER
2003 / 16 mm / color / sound / 20’

L'Abominable

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:55:00 +0100

L'Abominable:

click link to see L’abominable website

Photograms from sister smiðja: CHERRY KINO!

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:59:43 +0100

Photograms from sister smiðja: CHERRY KINO!

photograms-scratching-drawing on 16mm film!

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:52:11 +0100

photograms-scratching-drawing on 16mm film!