Prelude to the Murder of a Prison Guard (1979)

1979년, 기차 플랫폼 부근에서 슈퍼 8mm 카메라로 영화를 촬영하던 6명의 아이들은 열차를 향해 전속력으로 돌진해가는 의문의 트럭을 발견한다. 순식간에 벌어진 끔찍한 열차 탈선 사고로 현장은 초토화가 되고, 아이들은 자신들이 우연히 목격한 모든 것을 비밀에 부치기로 한다. 하지만 그 날 이후 정체를 알 수 없는 무언가의 공격이 시작되는데… 비밀 지역 51구역 폐쇄와 함께 그 곳의 모든 것을 옮기던 열차. 누군가가 의도한 사고를 틈타 탈출한 ‘그것’. 그리고, 그 날의 모든 것을 촬영한 슈퍼 8mm 카메라. 진실을 포착한 6명의 아이들! 정체불명 '그것'의 공격에 맞서기 시작한다!

실제 범죄를 바탕으로 한 소설로 베스트셀러 작가가 된 ‘앨리슨’. 새로운 소설의 소재를 찾기 위해 일가족 몰살 사건이 벌어졌던 저택으로 이사 온다. 우연히 집 안에 남겨진 필름들을 발견한 ‘앨리슨’은 호기심에 이를 보고 경악을 금치 못하는데.. 필름엔 자신이 조사하던 살인 사건의 가족들이 죽어가는 충격적인 장면이 찍혀있었던 것! 카메라 뒤에 숨겨져 있을 범인을 찾기 위해, ‘앨리슨’은 필사적으로 단서를 추적하다, 모든 사건의 가족 중 아이들이 한 명씩 사라졌음을 발견하는데...

Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

Indifferent landscapes, refracting light, some lonely bird and the window to the sebum-laden living room made of patterned wallpaper and trivialities. Cut. Tenacious sequences inflate moments to cliff-hangers and shatter their tremulous spectatorship. Thundering leitmotifs – in constant intoxication by German disinterest – with no backrest or lederhosen. Black-red-gold at full mast, the cinema is dead.

In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.

In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.

A grandmother dies and leaves behind hours of secret film and audio recordings as well as an envelope with the words “Must read after my death,” which reveal a dark history for her family to discover.

A street-wise teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence.

In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick that she had magically brought to life. Despite this tragic event, not all is lost for Lolita, as she soon meets an unexpected new friend.

During a recent remodel of The Yellow House crews discovered the remains of a little girl and a super 8 movie camera with the footage still inside. The footage has been released to the media by Summerland police with the hope that someone can solve this mystery. Police investigators confirm the film was shot by the missing couple. It is believed they were murdered by occult members. This is their footage.

SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

The filmmaker Juan Pinzás goes on a physical and also inner journey, in search of some lost images that he filmed in the 80s. The journey takes him from Madrid to Galicia and on the search for these images he meets with various characters who will help him in his undertaking, such as the actors Paul Naschy and Javier Gurruchaga whose personal worlds will be examined in the film. Finally in Vigo, his home city, of which he presents a remarkable portrait, he finds an old film in Super-8mm with the missing images. The catharsis is produced with the viewing of the old film which turns out to be a tribute to cinema and this means the end of the filmmaker's introspective journey.

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

SONG 7: San Francisco (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

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. ∞

SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Shot on Super 8, Aunty CB is a memory montage of a woman’s stream of consciousness and her honest introspection surrounding gendered family dynamics and childhood trauma. Framed as a confessional monologue, Singlish, Hokkien, and English are employed to capture a linguistic and vernacular portrait of the eponymous character.

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.