Super 8 Film Festival at Block T

This Saturday, I'm participating in the Super 8 Festival at Block T in Dublin. During the 'Mixtape' session, there will be the first public attempt to coax my film Money Spent at Night through a projector without it disintegrating. Regardless of the outcome, I'll also be sitting on a panel to justify 'Why Super 8' later in the day.

Here is their programme:

SATURDAY MAY 3RD at BLOCK T, NOON TIL MIDNIGHT.
Tickets €40 including dinner, only 40 tickets available!

https://www.facebook.com/events/271079293066014/

With a special focus on the Kuchar Brothers this one-day event, which runs from noon until midnight, celebrates the continued revolutionary potential of a not-yet-obsolete medium featuring films, performance and discussion.

Tickets are available directly through BlockT or by emailing Super8festivaldublin@gmail.com

Super8 Pioneer George Kuchar claimed that “8mm is a tool of defense in this society of mechanized corruption because through 8mm and its puny size, we are closer to the dimensions of the atom”. Somewhat perversely right now seems like the perfect time to celebrate this not-yet-outmoded medium not as a relic of the past but as a tool of the present. In a moment when we are surrounded by the pseudo retro convenience of Instagram and the controlled limitations of Vine why not spend a whole day celebrating the joyful inconvenience of Super8 Film. 

Noon: Irish Experiments in Super 8 Film 'THE MIXTAPE' 

With assistance from Experimental Film Club this programme features work by many exciting filmmakers including Vivienne Dick, Max Le Cain, Una Quigley, Aoife Desmond and many more.   

2pm: D1 RECORDINGS JAPAN

Screenings of Films Alan Lambert shot for D1 recordings in the nineties with live musical accompaniment by Alan Lambert and Junshi

4pm: 'THE HOMEMADE CINEMA'

An experiential analogical montage of found sound and film performed by Fergal Brennan and Sharon Phelan

5pm: WHY SUPER 8?

A Round-table Discussion addressing the continued significance of the format featuring Aoife Desmond, Max Le Cain, Vivienne Dick.

6pm: SUPER ATE

A simple dinner provided by Luncheonette Dublin (dinner included in ticket price)

8pm: KUCHAR!

A Focus on the Kuchar Brothers, true Super 8 Pioneers!

10pm: HOLLYWOOD BABYLON PRESENTS

Party time with Dublin's 'best film club' (or at least that's what the Irish Times said) with Super8 digest screenings of trash classics The Warriors and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry