I Built a Homemade Super 8 Movie Viewer
Published March 28, 2022 · 5:13 · 65,599 views
About This Video
One of the things that makes Super 8 remarkable is that the film you watch is the same film that was shot. The film was there. It is an artifact from the experience, and that makes you want to keep it forever. The video is almost entirely without words, just the footage of Van building the viewer and the delight when it works.
Five minutes, mostly set to music. The homemade viewer lets Van watch his own Super 8 footage without sending it to a lab or digitizing it. Physical film, held up to light, projected through a handmade device. The medium is the message, and the message is: the original is irreplaceable. I love that about this one.
Transcript
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[Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] one of the things that makes super 8 remarkable is that the film we watch
is the same film we shot in other words the film was there
it's an artifact from the experience and that makes us want to keep it forever
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- Super 8 film uses — film format for homemade viewer