8 super 8: DVD + book, past, present and future of the cinematograph you can carry in your pocket

8 super 8 super 8 super 8 super 8 super 8… The year of the loop of infinity, the 8 years that super 8 celebrates are those which have motivated this publication that we launch with great joy, remembering the past editions, and thinking of those that will come. 8 super 8 is a special publication of (S8) that continues and expands a line already present in some past editions, thanks to which we published fanzines like Una tarde con Caldini, New Paintings by Ken Jacobs ant the translation of Daïchi Saïto’s book Moving the Sleeping Images of Things Towards the Light. . This time the publication consists of, on the one hand, a DVD with the portraits of many of the artists and programmers who have been at the festival, made in super 8, and which will be shown for the first time in a special edition for the occasion. From the first edition at the Prison to the year 2016, we have been collecting memories and impressions in super 8 of many of them, making the same act of portraying also a gesture of intimacy with the portrayed. It is, therefore, a beautiful collection of memories captured in the best way we can imagine, far from the rush and immediacy, and close to chance, patient work and the action of the photochemical stock.

On the other hand, there is a book, in which people who work or have worked in (or about) super 8 have been invited to collaborate. An invitation to write, draw or express in frames a kind of love letter to this format, and the relationship of each of the collaborators with it. This is how the publication collects from personal and vital stories to examples of automatic writing, collections of quotes, drawings, collages, recovered texts (such as George Kuchar’s manifesto) or small private tributes (that is why the book closes with 4 frames of Zulueta’s Rapture). From people who have been at the festival, to others we would like to have here in the future, or authors who, although they are no longer among us, we wanted to show the impact of their work in our lives. A colorful mosaic of unique, special, and 90% unpublished impressions, which together with the DVD are for us a particular memory as well as a stimulus for the future.

8 super 8 can be purchased at our headquarters during the days of the festival (at a special price), and then we hope to get it on sale through the internet and selected bookstores in the country.
Publication presentation Wednesday, May 31 at 1:00 pm in the Press Room of Afundación.