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.
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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.
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