Bright-eyed, innocent Super 8 Virgins: that was how the five participants in EIFF Super 8 Workshop were when I first met them on the morning of the 24th. Barely seven hours later, here they are performimg their films live, with four projectors loaded with the most amazingly trippy loops of Super 8 the Film Fest has ever seen. (Well, in my opinion anyway…)
The workshop, which ran between 10am and 5pm, concentrated on ways of manipulating Super 8 film using various mark-making and destructive techniques in order to create something entirely new with a blank or pre-exposed length of film. By the end of the day, each person had created four or five loops, ready for that evenings live show.
A little break and a celebratory beer later in the Delegate Centre, at 7.30pm the lights dimmed and Matt began the soundtrack to the performance with the eerily-cool opener from ‘Get Carter’, signalling us to switch the projectors to full power…
After an hour of constantly changing visuals everyone had performed their own work for about 10 minutes each, but as my loops became too hot they started to fry and melt under the heat of the projector bulbs and was a prett neat way to finish!
I was exhausted, but as each participant was grinning wildly I could only assume they had a great time, along with the generous turnout from friends, family and EIFF staff and Delegates (although I’m sure some were only there because Happy Hour ended 5 minutes before we went on…)
Well done to everyone who took part. You rock quite a bit.
Steve
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