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GLOBAL SUPER8 DAY - Saturday 24th October 2015

The Beginning

The Global Super8 Day started around the year 1998 when there was a global revival for the Super8 film format. Lutz Kayser of Hamburg's Super8 Group ALL NIZO (www.anrrp.org) hatched the term "Global Super8 Day" in 1998 when he visited a Super8 festival "Formel Super8" (www.formelsuper8.ch) in Zürich, Switzerland. Beatrice Jäggi and Saro Pepe, the organisers of the festival picked up on the idea and together they planned the first Global Super8 Day in the year 2000 as a global event. Since then the idea developed a life of its own and GS8Ds have been celebrated independently in many countries. In 2005 there was another attempt to coordinate GS8D screenings globally on one day, which resulted in about 40 events on May 8th 2005 mostly in the US, Europe and Australia (www.super8.ch/globalsuper8day/may2005/participants.shtml).

There there has been an almost complete shift to digital in the film industry all over the word since 2010. The consequences have been severe for the Super8 community. Reactivating GS8D for the 50th anniversary of Super8 is a logical consequence due to the gravity of the situation. In the last decade Super8 has very much profited of the initiative and creativity of the community which still uses the format. As the industry loses interest and it gets harder to offer services for profit it's up to the geeks and enthusiasts to take the steering wheel in their hands.

Global Super8 Day 2015

This will be an event where the individual organisers play the main role. The only imperative commonalities are the date and the film format.

On everything else the organisers are free to decide how they want to celebrate the day. Screening, performance or installation are all fine. The fact that the Super8 community consists not only of filmmakers but also of performing and visual artists widens the range of possible events.

Mobileskino as initiator of GS8D 2015 will run the website and help organisers to network. With the help of the internet small local communities of Super8 fans can find like-minded people close and far. We are still thinking of other ways to let the event profit from the network we are building up, but there is still a lot of time until October 2015, so we're still breeding on ideas.

To date (April 2015) we have received messages from people in 54 cities in 26 countries on 5 continents who plan events.

http://gs8d2015.jimdo.com/gs8d-2015/

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