“It’s a feeling, Super 8 film is,” what a viewer told me about film footage

It’s just that, a feeling.  I was screening some footage and someone said it feels like it’s from the 1950s except for the modern cars. 

BUT IT LOOKS LIKE MODERN CARS IN 1950!

The medium of film transports the event to another place, another time.  It’s like a cinematic time machine.

That’s what the comments were.  And I agree entirely.

I believe filmmakers who shoot film never stop shooting film.  Once you see how beautiful the images are in this format, the more you want to create with it.

It’s a revolution in filmmaking.  And it’s mid-20th century technology driving the revolution.

Viva la Super 8!

The More I See Film Next to Video…

…the more I realize that film has a subjective quality unlike video.  It’s not cold and literal.   It’s not so crisp and clean.  HD is getting to be too much so.

No, instead, it’s expressionistic.  It’s the opposite of literal.  It’s almost ethereal. 

It takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary.  I like that.  I like creating with a medium that has that ability to create imagery slightly unlike it was there. 

You really have to see it to believe it.   Playing the DVD is magical.  Playing it thru a projector in a darkened room on a 8′ screen, now there you have a cinematic event!