Cover Art: "Brainwashing" Photogram ©2008 A.G. Nigrin
The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center & the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies present
the New Jersey Film Festival screening of the
2009 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival
Cover Art: "Brainwashing" Photogram ©2008 A.G. Nigrin
The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center and the
Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies present the 21st Annual
2009 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festivalsm Award Winners
Grand Prize Winners
Best Documentary=$400 of Film Processing Services from and
sponsored by PAC Lab
Immokalee U.S.A. (Georg Koszulinski and Dan Gloeckner, New York, New York,
2008, 77 min.)
Best Experimental=Tie=$250 of film from and sponsored by Eastman Kodak
Die Schneider Krankheit (Javier Chillon, Madrid, Spain, 2008, 10 min.)
Out of the Blue (Alexandra Roxo, Brooklyn, New York, 2009, 7 min.)
The Night Gardener (Jennifer Hardacker, Portland, Oregon, 2008, 9 min.)
Best Short=Tie=$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
Cochran (James P. Gannon, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, 8 min.)
October’s End (Patrick Boyton, Frederick, Maryland, 2009, 7 min.)
Fossil Light (Tony Gault, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 2009, 17 min.)
Best Animation=$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
Trapped (Chota Takamine, Okinawa, Japan, 2008, 10 min.)
Best Jersey Film=$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
Haunted Hayride (Warren F. Disbrow, Neptune, New Jersey, 2008, 94 min.)
Audience Choice Prize=$100 of film from and sponsored by Eastman Kodak
Cochran (James P. Gannon, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, 8 min.)
Honorable Mention Winners
Herb Garden (Noah Stout, Princeton, New Jersey, 2008; 5 min.)
T-shirt of Me (Matt Meindl, Gahanna, Ohio; 2008, 5 min.)
MJ12 (Rob Malone and Zach Strauss, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2008, 21 min.)
The Night Janitor (Adam Harvanek, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, 10 min.)
Syntagma (Christina loakeimidi, Athens, Greece, 2008, 8 min.)
More Control (Steve Daniels, Columbia, South Carolina, 2008, 6 min.)
The Yellow Forest (Phillip Docken, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2009; 10 min.)
The Heart is What Remains (Alexandra Roxo, Brooklyn, New York, 2009, 13 min.)
Finalists
Joey and Jerome's Artistic Meaningful Independent Film (Josh Bass: Houston,
Texas, 2007; 23 min.)
Show Me (Jessica Vogt, Hillside, New Jersey; 2008, 13 min.)
Gertel’s galore ..lore .. ore (Stephanie Gray, Flushing, NY, 2007, 7
min.)
Eve’s Apples (Mary Borrello, Astoria, New York, 2008, 5 min.)
The Art of Comedy (Jenniffer Dominguez, Bronx, New York, 2008, 5 min.)
The United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival, which is part of the New Jersey Film Festivalsm Spring 2008, is funded and sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission/Board of Chosen Freeholders and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Eastman Kodak; Johnson & Johnson; New Jersey Books; WCTC/WMGQ; The Home News Tribune; The Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences; the Rutgers University Academic Engagement and Programming Department ; The Rutgers University Spanish Department; The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Writers Boot Camp; The Rutgers University Religion Department; Jungle Software; Pro 8mm; Super 8 Today; PAC Lab; New Brunswick City Market; Rutgers University Libraries; Albus Cavus Gallery; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Rutgers University Presentation Services; The Rutgers University Study Abroad Programs; The Rutgers University Enhanced Classroom Support Department; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Mark Hommer; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.
For more information call the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC at 732-932-8482 or
go to our website at www.njfilmfest.com!
Friday+Saturday,
February 20+21, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
Scott Hall #123 * CAC * Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey U.S.A.
$10=General; $9=Students + Seniors; $8=Film Co-op Friends
2009 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festivalsm
Now in its 21st year, the United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival is the largest and longest running juried Super 8mm film and digital video festival in North America. The festival encourages any genre (animation, documentary, personal, narrative, experimental, etc.) made on Super 8mm/8mm film, Hi 8mm/8mm, or Digital video. Every year our Festival draws large audiences to celebrate works created with these small-gauge media formats. Audience members come to see small-budget works created by passionate film/video makers, which are often more imaginative and impressive than the big-budget works, produced out of Hollywood. The 21st annual United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival will be held on February 20+21, 2009 at Scott Hall #123 (beginning each evening at 7 PM) on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Festival will include a different program each evening.
All works were screened by a panel of 14 judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. The panel included: Bradley Berne, Steve Dovidas, Mike Keane, Eddie Konczal, Lea Koussolulis, Corey Marshall, A.G. Nigrin, Rachel Poloski, Kathleen Quigley, Emily Schachtman, Shawn Stidem, Rita Marie Stapleton, Claire Taylor and Danielle Winter. These judges selected the 22 finalists which will be publicly screened at our Festival. These finalists were selected from over 160 works submitted by film and videomakers from around the world. 160 entries represents the third most the Festival has ever received. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners (including over $3000 in prizes) in conjunction with the Festival Director. Audience members will be asked to participate in the judging process by voting for their favorite works via the "Audience Choice Prize." The award winners will be publicly announced after the screenings on Saturday, February 21, 2009.
The Festival also takes as its mandate the spreading of the Super 8 film + Digital video word. Toward that goal, the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC has sponsored ten touring programs culled from Festival prize winners for the past fifteen years. The "Selections of the U.S. Super 8 Film/Video Festival Touring Program" has been screened at media art centers, film festivals, and universities including: Pittsburgh Filmmakers; Princeton Library; DCTV and Millennium in New York City; The Northwest Film & Video Center/Portland Art Museum, Oregon; The 2nd World Festival of Video in Brussels, Belgium; The Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York; 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle, Washington; The Utah Film & Video Center in Salt Lake City; Berks Filmmakers in Reading, PA; Fairmont State College in West Virginia; Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts; Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York; the Melbourne Super 8 Festival, Australia; and many others.
Special thanks to all the jurors listed above; Irene Fizer; Susan Martin-Marquez, John Belton, and Alan Williams of the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies; Rosalyn Neal and Anna Aschkenes of the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission; The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State - a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Susan Selig, Geoff DeMoss, and Judy Doherty of Eastman Kodak; Michael Bzdak of Johnson & Johnson; Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway of the International Center for 8mm Film & Video; Chris Cottrill of Super 8 Today; Barbara and Mike Poolin of PAC Lab; Aaton Cohen-Sitt of Jungle Software; The Bagel Dish; and The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC friends, sponsors, donors, interns, and staff for making this festival possible.
We urge you to submit work to the 2010 U.S. Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival when we will celebrate the 22nd year of the Festival! Thank you for making this year's festival a huge success, and see you in 2010.
Albert Gabriel Nigrin
Executive Director/Curator & Founder
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center + The U.S. Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival
2009 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festivalsm
All screenings will take place on February 20+21, 2009 beginning at 7PM, in Scott Hall #123
(43 College Avenue - near the Corner of Hamilton Street and College Avenue)
on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Admission per evening: $10 General; $9 Students/Seniors; $8 Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends
Joey and Jerome's Artistic Meaningful Independent Film (Josh Bass: Houston, Texas, 2007; 23 min.) Joey and Jerome have been watching Diehard and Transformers their whole lives. When Jerome's sister lends them a few independent films, they are blown away. They decide then and there to make their own independent film, despite having no money, a mere VHS camcorder, and no filmmaking experience to speak of. And we get to watch the result.
Herb Garden (Noah Stout, Princeton, New Jersey, 2008; 5 min.)
A portrait of my late grandparents shot in super 8 film and digital video. The discontinued Kodachrome film inter-cut with digital video represents a collision between textures of a dying generation and a young modern one. As I lose my grandparents and they lose each other, I use cinema to unite their bodies, to give movement to the lifeless and to freeze what seems to move too quickly.
T-shirt of Me (Matt Meindl, Gahanna, Ohio; 2008, 5 min.)
The perils of wearing one's own image are explored in this super 8 comedy about friends and bad clothes.
Out of the Blue (Alexandra Roxo, Brooklyn, New York, 2009, 7 min.)
A woman's journey from the land of the dead into greener pastures.
Cochran (James P. Gannon, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, 8 min.)
A story about the inability to escape the past, what happens when the present intervenes, and ultimately, about acceptance.
Die Schneider Krankheit (Javier Chillon, Madrid, Spain, 2008, 10 min.)
Spring of 1958. A Soviet space capsule crewed by an ape crashes in West Germany. Diplomatic tensions between Germany and the USSR arise. The ape is the carrier of a strange new virus that spreads over the country. Investigations fail to shed any light on the cure...
MJ12 (Rob Malone and Zach Strauss, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2008, 21 min.)
An extraterrestrial comes to Earth dressed in silver-spandex and determined to uncover the truth behind the JFK assassination and the value of human existence. Our star-born traveler manages to hitchhike his way across the Eastern United States. Will he be able to find what he set out to discover?
Trapped (Chota Takamine, Okinawa, Japan, 2008, 10 min.)
A man rises up to battle a desensitized consumer society.
The Night Janitor (Adam Harvanek, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, 10 min.)
A lonely janitor is spending another evening mopping a New York City skyscraper when he encounters a beautiful, young secretary who has been tossed aside by her boyfriend. Will he seize the opportunity to escape his nightly isolation or will he escape instead into the seclusion of his dreams?
Show Me (Jessica Vogt, Hillside, New Jersey; 2008, 13 min.)
Every family must deal with change.
Immokalee U.S.A. (Georg Koszulinski and Dan Gloeckner, New York, New York, 2008, 77 min.)
A powerful, haunting film and intimately observed documentary that focuses on today's migrant farm workers, a misunderstood, maligned, and exploited, necessary yet frequently forgotten group living in the shadows of America's massive food production machinery.
Syntagma (Christina loakeimidi, Athens, Greece, 2008, 8 min.)
Fotini receives an unexpected phone-call from Eric. They arrange to meet in Syntagma, the main square in Athens. The film follows her journey to the meeting point.
October's End (Patrick Boyton, Frederick, Maryland, 2009, 7 min.)
Some call the night before Halloween, Mischief Night. Others call it Devil's Night. But on this October 30, two boys are about to learn that some jokes have deadly consequences.
More Control (Steve Daniels, Columbia, South Carolina, 2008, 6 min.)
An indie band -- The Heist And The Accomplice enter an abandoned movie theater to shoot their first music video, only to be attacked by the film itself as it unspools from the camera and tries to kill them.
The Night Gardener (Jennifer Hardacker, Portland, Oregon, 2008, 9 min.)
In The Night Gardener disparate images that capture an idea about the humanity of the world play on floral screens. This film explores the idea of the collective unconscious, which is here symbolically represented via old educational films projected onto garden plants and then re-photographed.
Fossil Light (Tony Gault, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 2009, 17 min.)
An "eco-tourist" holiday - to photograph polar bears - becomes a meditation on the glar ing results of climate change. And so we're left with memories, in pictorial form.
Gertel's galore ..lore .. ore (Stephanie Gray, Flushing, NY, 2007, 7 min.)
One of the last real Jewish bakeries on the Lower East Side succumbs to the unfriendly real estate market in New York City.
The Yellow Forest (Phillip Docken, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2009; 10 min.)
An experimental film montage.
The Heart is What Remains (Alexandra Roxo, Brooklyn, New York, 2009, 13 min.)
An interpretation of the phases of love through symbols, sounds, and the re-contextualization of elements of a common fable.
Eve's Apples (Mary Borrello, Astoria, New York, 2008, 5 min.)
A woman finds out that she has an unusual disease.
The Art of Comedy (Jenniffer Dominguez, Bronx, New York, 2008, 5 min.)
Things that make people laugh.
Haunted Hayride (Warren F. Disbrow, Neptune, New Jersey, 2008, 94 min.)
For a night of fun, four teenagers decide to attend the final It's the midnight Haunted Hayride of the year. Four teenagers go looking for a truly frightful joyride. A masked serial killer is stalking the Halloween Farm...
The United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival, which is part of the New Jersey Film Festivalsm Spring 2009, is funded and sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission/Board of Chosen Freeholders and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Eastman Kodak; Johnson & Johnson; New Jersey Books; WCTC/WMGQ; The Home News Tribune; The Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences; the Rutgers University Office of Academic Engagement and Programming ; The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Writers Boot Camp; The Pro 8mm; Super 8 Today ; PAC Lab; New Brunswick City Market; ProductionHUB.com; Jungle Software; Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Rutgers University Libraries; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Rutgers University Presentation Services; The Rutgers University Study Abroad Programs; The Rutgers University Enhanced Classroom Support Department; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.
The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center presents
2009 UNITED STATES SUPER 8 FILM & DIGITAL VIDEO FESTIVAL
February 20-22, 2009 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ENTRIES: January 16, 2009 @ 5PM EST!
The 21st Annual United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival will be held February 20-22, 2009 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Festival encourages any genre (animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, personal, etc.), but the work must have predominantly originated on Super 8mm/8mm film or Digital video or 8mm video formats. All works will be screened by a panel of judges who will award over $4000 in prizes. Last year's festival audiences viewed 20 finalist works out of 180 entries from throughout the world over three evenings. The Festival takes as its mandate the spreading of the 8mm and Digital word. For more information go to www.njfilmfest.com or call us at 732-932-8482!
Brainwashing by Albert Gabriel Nigrin copyright 2008
There is a $45.00 non-refundable entry fee for each work under 50 min. and $75 for works over 50 min. submitted. Do not send cash. Make the check or money order payable to the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC. Include with your entry: the entry fee; a completed entry form; a DVD or 1/2" VHS videocassettes for pre-screening, a self-addressed stamped postcard for notification of entry receipt; and a self-addressed stamped container for return of entry if desired. All entries must have originally been shot predominantly on Super 8/8mm film or Digital/Hi 8/8mm video. Digital works include HD, miniDV, DigiBeta, etc. Video transfers of films are accepted. Do not send originals or prints with many splices. For films, include your name and title on the outside of the film can as well as on the head and tail leader. For videotapes/dvds, include your name and title on both the tape/dvd box and the tape/dvd itself. Please do not send any entries in fiber-filled mailing containers. Only finalists are notified in advance that their work is in the public screenings. If a work is selected for screening entrants are contractually obligated to provide an exhibition copy suitable for screening. Submission of an entry gives the festival permission to have accepted work exhibited, photographed, locally telecast, and reproduced either in part or whole, for educational or publicity purposes. The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC will not be held responsible in the event of loss or damage to submitted work.
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