The Black Crystal (1990)

A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed.

España, años 70. Alfredo López está casado con Carmen, peluquera y esposa fiel. Cuando empieza a irle mal su trabajo de vendedor de enciclopedias a domicilio, se les presenta la oportunidad de ganar dinero haciendo películas eróticas en Super-8, que se exportarán a los países escandinavos bajo la forma de una falsa enciclopedia sobre la reproducción en el mundo.

"El viaje interior" de uno de los directores españoles más controvertidos. El cineasta Juan Pinzás realiza un viaje físico e iniciático en busca de unas imágenes perdidas que había rodado en los años ochenta. El viaje le conduce desde Madrid hasta su Galicia natal encontrándose en el camino con diversos personajes, como el mítico actor y director Paul Naschy o el polifacético cantante y actor Javier Gurruchaga, en cuyos universos personales ahonda el film. Finalmente hallará en Vigo una vieja película en formato de Súper-8 mm con las imágenes deseadas. La catarsis se produce con el visionado del antiguo film que resulta ser un homenaje al cine y supone el final del viaje introspectivo del cineasta.

We see the film title card on screen and sound is coming from the cinema, but the screen is black. The filmmaker hands a cellphone with video to two sitting in front of the crowd. The image of the film plays on the phone for those who can see it in the crowd as the audio comes through the cinema speakers.

BACK IN MY BODY is a short documentary about musician Maggie Rogers returning to Alaska, a place that has had a huge impact on her life.

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

In the old projection room of a cinema something comes to life. 24 frames per second. 24 beats per minute. The analogue film is infinite. ∞

Skating is cool. Super 8 films too. Fuck-shit! That was dope! // "Super (8) Skate" is a Stop-Motion short, shot on Super 8 film to express the love of skating and filmmaking.

Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th 2018 at straight 8's Cannes film festival screening.

Automatic-writing on film, using double exposures, macro imagery, dissolves, and in-camera editing to create a dream collage of Los Angeles, from the perspective of a plane and an arachnid dancing between water and sun.

Created by Lisa Jackson and Steven Daniels during the Summer of 2000. This striking black & white 8mm film is filled with arresting images explores industrial and natural rhythms set to a striking original soundtrack.

A high school student has a mental breakdown and brings a gun to class. A standoff against the police ensues.

A group of punks steal weapons from a military base.

Eerie images of landscapes after the Fukushima nuclear disaster shot on black and white 8mm.

A young man idles around Tokyo, collecting materials to construct a diorama of a cityscape.

'The angle of the world allows us to see the real as an outer and inner presence at the same time, an opaque otherness, yet capable of becoming an intimate space. These incommensurable lengths and distances of an interior that opens up: The mysterious movement of the clouds, the cadence of the waves against the light, or the silent slippage of a barely identifiable human silhouette, everything seems transfigured, derealized and reinvented by light in a poetic world that evokes the paintings of Turner or Friedrich, the writings of Poe or Baudelaire.’ — Violeta Salvatierra

An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior.

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban Switzerland.

Super 8mm film.

A series of inner landscapes evoked through sound, voice and fleeting fragments of Super 8 film.