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thinkingimages · 2 months

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A Derek Jarman film with music by Throbbing Gristle Derek Jarman used some of his 70s home movie footage to produce this wonderful piece of exploitational avantgarde cinema. Actually the original material has been slowed down to a speed of 3-6 frames, then Jarman added colour effects and the pulsating, menacing score by Industrial supergroup Throbbing Gristle The result is a piece of art not to dissimilar to Jarman’s painting work in using found footage as elements of memory and mind that resemble ideas reflected in the Cabala and in C.G. Jung`s writings about an archetypical past that is hidden in everyone of us. The first, In the Shadow of the Sun (1974-80), was originally put together by Jarman himself in 1974 from re-shot Super-8 material including footage from The Art of Mirrors and Journey to Avebury, amongst several others. The film was eventually blown-up to 35mm and premiered at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival. The focus on ritual, mysticism and obscure alchemical symbolism links it with the work of Anger. However, Jarman’s preference for the work of Carl Jung and the “white” magician John Dee, is quite distinct from Anger’s invocations of the “black” magician Alistair Crowley. – Jon Behrens

Extending the recent pagan theme, Ubuweb posts Derek Jarman’s determinedly occult and oneiric film, In the Shadow of the Sun (1980), notable for its soundtrack by Throbbing Gristle. This was the longest of Jarman’s films derived from Super-8 which he made throughout the 1970s between work as a production designer and his feature films. He never saw the low resolution, grain and scratches of Super-8 as a deficiency; on the contrary, for a painter it was a means to achieve with film stock some of the texture of painting. Michael O’Pray described the process and intent behind the film in Afterimage 12 (1985):

In 1973, Jarman shot the central sequences for his first lengthy film, and most ambitious to date, In the Shadow of the Sun, which in fact was not shown publicly until 1980, at the Berlin Film Festival. In the film he incorporated two early films, A Journey to Avebury a romantic landscape film, and The Magician (a.k.a. Tarot). The final sequences were shot on Fire Island in the following year. Fire Island survives as a separate film. In this period, Jarman had begun to express a mythology which he felt underpinned the film. He writes in Dancing Ledge of discovering “the key to the imagery that I had created quite unconsciously in the preceding months”, namely Jung’s Alchemical Studies and Seven Sermons to the Dead. He also states that these books “gave me the confidence to allow my dream-images to drift and collide at random”. The themes and ideas found in Jubilee, The Angelic Conversation, The Tempest and to some extent in Imagining October are powerfully distilled in In the Shadow of the Sun. Jarman’s obsession with the sun, fire and gold (which spilled over in the paintings he exhibited at the ICA in 1984) and an ancient mythology and poetics are compressed in In the Shadow of the Sun with its rich superimposition and painterly textures achieved through the degeneration “caused by the refilming of multiple images”. Jarman describes some of the ideas behind In the Shadow of the Sun:

“This is the way the Super-8s are structured from writing: the buried word-signs emphasize the fact that they convey a language. There is the image and the word, and the image of the word. The ‘poetry of fire’ relies on a treatment of word and object as equivalent: both are signs; both are luminous and opaque. The pleasure of Super-8 is the pleasure of seeing language put through the magic lantern.” Dancing Ledge p.129

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#Youtube #In the Shadow of the Sun (1981)#Derek Jarman #Throbbing Gristle #compilation #8mm short films #soundtrack #experimental #sound art #music #Super 8 films #film

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retrogamingblog2 · 9 months

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Glow-in-the-dark Luma from Super Mario Bros Movie made by Edgar Olvera

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365filmsbyauroranocte · 1 year

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Les années Super 8 (Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot, 2022)

#Les années Super 8 #Les annees Super 8 #Annie Ernaux #halloween 2022 #quote #documentary #silence #film #cinema #family #The Super 8 Years #David Ernaux-Briot #people

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datura21 · 2 months

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Suite de Hannah dans la loggia à la salle de bain au film triX pan

#portrait #ombre #noir et blanc #chevelure #cheveux #nu #films #super_huit #cinema #analog #analogique #mouvement #super 8

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goryhorroor · 2 years

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movies + friendship

#movies #the goonies #the monster squad #the lost boys #it #harry potter #stand by me #the sandlot #e.t. the extra terrestrial #super 8 #stranger things #if i had room i would had included buffy the vampire slayer #filmedit #film #moviesedit #i could do a part 2

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brandonmichaelyoung · 2 years

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Don’t Leave by Brian León

#brian león #music #indie #queer #artist #brandon michael young #super 8 #film #california #Highland park

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angstystoryteller · 11 months

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I never have much luck with promoting on here, but it’s worth a shot.

Míyaxwe, my name is Gabz Norte and I’m a Cahuilla and Cupeño filmmaker and av archivist. I’m making a film combining my family’s Super 8 home movies from the 1970s with footage I will also be shooting on Super 8 film. This is a hybrid project for me, creating a film and also preserving and caring for my family’s films while creating an archive. Many of these films are records of reservation life and Indigenous familial experience and I strongly believe they need to be seen.

As you may imagine, this is a costly endeavor and I’m trying to raise money to make this goal happen. I talk a little more about the details in the video in the link.

Shares are greatly appreciated. Á•čama!

#filmmaking #home movies #super 8 #super 8 film #amateur film #short film #archives #archival work #av archivist #archivist #filmmaker #experimental film #indigenous #indigenous cinema

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prairiedeath · 1 year

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Super 8

#super 8 #ohio #2011 #film stills #stills #movie stills #directing #jj abrams #midwest #midwest gothic #american gothic #small town usa

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moreofeverything66 · 6 months

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#books #castle films #super 8

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frumpydress · 1 year

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Harajuku.

#street style #harajuku #super 8 film #awesome #2000s

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verypersonalscreencaps · 1 year

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Hey guys, it’s time to share my favourite film watches of 2022! I can’t say that I saw every film that was on my watchlist but I think there were some definite highlights. In ‘new releases’ we have this Top 20 (very loosely ranked!): 1. Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells) 2. Tár (dir. Todd Field) 3. The Woman King (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood) 4. The Wonder (dir. Sebastian Lelio) 5. À Plein Temps (dir. Eric Gravel) 6. Mrs Harris Goes To Paris (dir. Anthony Fabian) 7. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (dir. Sophie Hyde) 8. Les Passagers De La Nuit (dir. Mikhaël Hers) 9. The Quiet Girl (dir. Colm Bairéad) 10. L’Événement (dir. Audrey Diwan) 11. The Fabelmans (dir. Steven Spielberg) 12. Fire Of Love (dir. Sara Dosa) 13. Les Années Super 8 (dir. Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot) 14. Les Olympiades (dir. Jacques Audiard) 15. Nobody Has To Know (dir. Bouli Lanners) 16. Ali & Ava (dir. Clio Barnard) 17. Top Gun: Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski) 18. Dowton Abbey: A New Era (dir. Simon Curtis) 19. Emily (dir. Frances O’Connor) 20. Rien À Foutre (dir. Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre) And in ‘older releases’… 1. The Worst Person In The World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier) 2. Amanda (2018, dir. Mikhaël Hers) 3. Ce Sentiment De L’Été (2015, dir. Mikhaël Hers) 4. The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012 , dir. Felix Van Groeningen) 5. Bright Star (2009, dir. Jane Campion) 6. The Handmaiden (2016, dir. Park Chan-wook) 7. Daphne (2007, dir. Clare Beavan) 8. Oslo, August 31st (2011, dir. Joachim Trier) 9. Robin And Marian (1976, dir. Richard Lester) 10. La Belle Saison (2015, dir. Catherine Corsini) As hard as it is to believe, 2023 is almost upon us, it's time to wish you all a HAPPY and SAFE New Year. Have a wonderful time wherever you are in the world. Big love 💗💗

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365filmsbyauroranocte · 1 year

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Les années Super 8 (Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot, 2022)

#films watched in 2022 #Les années Super 8 #Annie Ernaux #siete #2022 #Les annees Super 8 #The Super 8 Years #documentary #flowers #nature #animals #dogs #family #David Ernaux-Briot #turtle #sunglasses #writing

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juptnoirz · 1 month

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throwback with my bae @br4inlessf4iry

#2014 grunge #2k14 tumblr #aesthetic #lana del rey #i miss 2014 #bring back 2014 #pale tumblr #coquette #cybershot #digi cam #8mm film #super 8 #filmcamera

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sillyfudgemonkeys · 7 months

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Everyone's talking about Wish right now.... The only thing I can say about WISH.......let's hope it's like a Frozen 1 type thing. Where the trailers were ABSOLUTE ASS but then the film turned out really good. TT0TT

I mean.....there is a difference between the two. While the west got weird trailers that didn't matter for Frozen (Olaf vs Sven carrot thing), JPN and other countries got trailers that actually showcased the plot and drama in an interesting way.... And Wish.....well...... Wish at least gives us a villain and a part of an argument.....and I can't see that argument leading anywhere.....great tbh. So maybe not the best comparisons but let's hope for the Frozen 1 vibe!

Anyway I'm not liking what I'm seeing so far, but I'm hoping its better than the ass disaster Frozen 2 and Ralph 2 were. ;w;