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Emulsion Connection
by Hsu, TsenChu
3' / 2018 / Taiwan / super8 + normal8 + 16mm / exp

Emulsion Connection is an interweaved image of R8mm, S8mm and 16mm motion picture. Emulsion Connection connects photochemical and digital format, and also connects filmmaker’s reinterpretation of the carefree student life in abroad and the return to life in hometown Taiwan.
These images links represent that the photochemical ways of completing images could be seen as a non-breaking time collector; the time difference between each frame can be 1/24 second or a decade. This way of recording life is fascinating, it is like the fragments in the dream, and one’s nature can only be revealed under this way. (The purple images in the beginning of Emulsion Connection is Kodachrome expired film, which was processed by Dwayne's Photo of their last batch of Kodachrome in 2010)
HSU, Tsen Chu was born in Taiwan. ‬
She is an experimental filmmaker who loves film as material‭. ‬
Landscape Becoming Landscape
by Pamela Breda
02:49 / 2019 / United Kingdom / 16mm / exp

A woman folds some pictures representing natural landscapes and place them into a real lanscape. Fiction and reality blur into each other.
Pamela Breda is an artist and researcher living between London and New York.
Her films have been screened internationally at festivals and art venues such as “Ecra Film Festival” (Rio de Janeiro, BR), Cyprus Contemporary Film Centre (Lefkosia, CY), Pugnant Film Series / Bideodromo film festival, Bilbao (ES), “Revolutions Per Minute Festival” (Boston, USA),  “Digital Film Library”, Clermont- Ferrand Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, F), Cite Internatinale Des Arts, (Paris, F), “Hazel Eye Film Festival” (Tennesse, USA), “The Bomb Art Factory Film Festival” (London, UK).
Petting Zoo
by Daniel Robin
11' / usa / 201? / found footage / exp- doc

In 1974 the local TV news station came into the filmmaker’s (as a young boy) home to document and learn about Jewish rituals. A narrative evolves about the formation of American Jewish identity, and transforms into an analogy for the current rise in anti-Semitism and nationalism in America and the world.
Daniel Robin makes short experimental non-fiction work including: my olympic summer which won the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking, Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the Florida Film Festival, Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival, Director’s Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival, and the Onda Curta Award at IndieLisboa Film Festival. His film All The Leaves Are Brown won Best Director at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Jury Award for Personal Vision at the Oxford Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at the Sidewalk Film Festival, and screened at many festivals including: Analogica 7, EDOC, Curtas Vila Do Conde. Daniel Robin is an associate professor at Georgia State University, teaching documentary production and fiction production.
The Pit
by Jona Gerlach
10' 51'' / 2019 / USA / 16mm + found footage / exp + doc

A portrait of the past and present of the Berkeley Pit, an former copper mine in Butte, Montana, and the largest body of contaminated water in the United States. Through handmanipulated original and found footage, the film shows the destructive consequences of mine waste though a variety of photochemical processes using the same contaminants found in the water of the pit.
Jona Gerlach is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores history, memory and place. He works in film, video, and installation to explore the relationship between landscape, people, and systems of power.
At your heels
by Azucena Losana
2'36'' / 2017 / argentina / 16mm / exp /

A recurring dream where I keep on following his traces, always at his heels.
Azucena Losana was Bborn and raised in Mexico City, 1977. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. Her work is related to experimental films, installations and video.
Malvaceae
by Juana Robles
10:40 / 2018 / Switzerland / super8 / exp

The boxes for the return into her home country are packed and stand around her bed since years. But will she ever know again, if it’s day or night, if she’s awake or asleep, if she’s breaking out or just running into a trap?
Juana Robles (*1983 Tortosa, Spain) is an experimental filmmaker based in Dublin, Ireland. Having grown up in Switzerland she studied Visual Communication, Spatial Design and Film. Her recent work is focused on analogue filmmaking and the use of 16 and 35mm celluloid film for animation and picture making. She has also worked as an editor in video art post production and still works as freelance graphic designer and film programer for experimental film festivals.
Petals and Feathers
by Adriana Gomez
03:59 / 2019 / Argentina / super8 / exp

A roll of super 8 given to a first time filmmaker at the age of 68 by her son in law. She is asked to use the roll to take photos of her garden. She says the following about her film: "What do I see in my garden, through my windows? The plants and flowers that I love and the bird that I admire."
Adriana Gomez was born in 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Studied Textile Art (CEAVAO) and Botany (Cristobal María Hicken School). At almost 70 years of age, her love for nature leads her to discover the image and is reflected in photographs and in her first short in Super 8, Petals and Feathers (2018).
Immersio
by Sophie Bouloux
4' 45'' / France / 2018 / super8 / experimental

"Caelum mergens sidera"
Sound and visual experience around duality.
"Immersio" evokes the light / dark, the conscious and the unconscious, the confusion of meaning in a chaotic world and the finitude of being.
Sophie BOULOUX alias Sophie.B, filmmaker.
Her photographic and cinematographic work is autonomous and without rule and weaves a link between experimentation and poetry creating a real dialectic of intimate and unusual worlds.
Beautiful young ladies
by Roger Batteault
8'28'' / 2019 / France / super8 / doc

This is an observation in the nature. Not far from a pond live many different dragonflies. At a time where insects disappear one after another, why don't just take a break, contemplate those beautiful young ladies and realize how we will miss nature...

NOTE from Roger's son
My father Roger Batteault, a former pork butcher, is now 79 years old and still makes Super 8 films. His films are shown here and there : in Brazil, London or during the Cannes filmfestival, thanks to 3 Straight 8 selections... My dad admires nature, he's a contemplative and his patience is rewarded by beautiful images (far more beautiful in a S8 screening than in this digital.