the8fest

08/01/2023

Online Bageroo programs extended until tomorrow!
Now's your chance to see the8fest's on-demand programs in case you missed them at the8fest.com

Online Bageroo Program #1 - Sight, Sound, and Mind
Co-Presented with Images Festival

Behold our debut intentional program on unprojectable films! The selected films exemplify the beauty of colour-negative Super8 film, and the contemporary practices of creating Super8 work in the 21st century. Join us for a colourful and electric visual program, online and on-demand.

With work by Erren Franklin, Juan Ignacio Slobayen, Maxime Michel, Joel Rodriguez, Tim Dübbert and Erren Franklin
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Online Program #2: Processing the Process
Co-Presented by Images Festival

This shorts program explores the process of grief, the experience of loss, and the journey towards acceptance.

With work by Rennie Taylor, Guillaume Vallée, Dominick Rivers and Rachel Evans.

Film still credit:
Juan Ignacio Slobayen, film still from Santo Rey Baltazar (2021, Argentina, Super 8, 9:25 minutes, sound)

Rennie Taylor, film still from Dissolution (2022, Canada, Super 8, 2:30 minutes, sound)

07/30/2023

🌐 ONLINE ON-DEMAND PROGRAMS
Up until August 1st at the8fest.com
Catch them while you can!

Online Bageroo Program #1 - Sight, Sound, and Mind
Co-Presented with Images Festival

Behold our debut intentional program on unprojectable films! The selected films exemplify the beauty of colour-negative Super8 film, and the contemporary practices of creating Super8 work in the 21st century. Join us for a colourful and electric visual program, online and on-demand.

With work by Erren Franklin, Juan Ignacio Slobayen, Maxime Michel, Joel Rodriguez, and Tim Dübbert
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Online Bageroo Program #2 - Processing the Process
Co-Presented with Images Festival

This shorts program explores the process of grief, the experience of loss, and the journey towards acceptance.

With work by Rennie Taylor, Guillaume Vallée, Dominick Rivers and Rachel Evans.

Film still credits:

Tim Dübbert, film still from Cornflake Blvd (2022, Germany, Super 8, 3:30 minutes, sound)

Erren Franklin, film still from Hot Slots (2022, USA, Super 8, 7:09 minutes, sound)

Dominick Rivers, film still from When The Seeds Say Enough (2022, USA, Super 8, 9:07 minutes, sound)

07/30/2023

Not to be missed!
the8fest is pleased to present the final day of in-person events with three special programmes at:
Beaver Hall
29 McCaul St, Toronto, ON M5T 1V7

🔶 3:00PM
Perspectives, Observations, and Vignettes (POVs): Judy Blankenship, John Coburn, and Barbara Sternberg

Curated by Robin Riad and Rennie Taylor

Places, Observations & Vignettes (POVs), shows three distinct voices from a professional artist to a documentary photographer and an experimental filmmaker. Spanning from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, these Super 8 films have never been publicly viewed in their entirety until now.

🔶 6:30PM
Small Notes on Small Gestures (Tetsuya Maruyama and Nikolas Candido) -

Presented by Tetsuya Maruyama in person!

In a world where Grand Gestures (with a capital G), such as going into space, are celebrated in Grand Media, can a small gesture like collecting insect corpses serve as a point of displacement? This selection of films, made by artist-cineastes (with small a-c) from various corners of Brazil, provides fragmented time-space to celebrate small in-situ gestures.

🔶8:00PM
Home Movie History Projects Presents: From Cape Town to Scarborough

A large extended family gathers for outings in and around Cape Town in the late-1960s - early 1970s. The life of the Liliefeldt family, both before and after immigrating to Toronto, is captured in the home movies they shot.

Full programme descriptions can be found in the digital catalog https://publuu.com/flip-book/196230/483571/page/1

Film still credits:
Barbara Sternberg, still from Elemental (1990s, Canada, Super 8, 15 minutes)

Helder Martinovsky, still from Confined Flux (2022, Brazil, Super 8, 3:00 minutes, sound, single projection)

Duo Strangloscope & Ángel Rueda, still from Metamorphosis of Narcissus or an Onion On the Head (2016, Brazil, Super 8, 4:00 minutes, silent, double projection)

Home Movie History Project, still from FROM CAPE TOWN TO SCARBOROUGH: Life Through the Immigrant's Eye

07/29/2023

🔥 TODAY 🔥
the8fest DAY TWO!

All events at Beaver Hall
29 McCaul St, Toronto, ON M5T 1V7

🔵 12:00pm-4:00pm
Workshop: Phonotropes
Facilitated by Jennifer Linton
**ONE SPOT LEFT! Register online - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/phonotropes-workshop-tickets-672400697587?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Learn about pre-cinema animation devices such as thaumatropes and zoetropes, and then apply the techniques covered in this workshop to make your own physical animation devices on paper.

🔵 6:00pm
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Deviations: A Retrospective of Small Gauge Films by Wrik Mead

Co-Presented by Toronto Q***r Film Festival+ Sponsored by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

Curated by Robin Riad and Cayley James

Post-screening conversation between Wrik Mead and the8fest's Chair and co-curator Robin Riad

Emerging from Toronto’s experimental film scene of the 1980s, Wrik Mead’s films have been internationally celebrated. Working across film, video, installation and print, the goal of this program is to explore a very specific small-gauge corner of his filmmaking practice.

🔵 7:00pm
Kyle Whitehead's IMMANENT UNION
(2021, Canada, Super 8, B+W & Colour, 58 minutes, Generative Sound via Light-Controlled Synthesizers)

This Super 8 film on two reels is a retrograde attempt to resolve a personal archive and index, confronting the inexorable passage of time into memory, memory into echo and echo into resonance.

🔵 8:30pm
Bageroo #3 Tactile Musings
Co-Presented by Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)

Delving into the world of physicality and technique, this program focuses on the materiality of film, working within its celluloid limitations to create something beyond imagination.

Film still credits:
Wrik Mead, film still from frostbite (1996, Canada, Super 8 and 16mm, 12 minutes)

Kyle Whitehead, from IMMANENT UNION (2021, Canada, Super 8, B+W & Colour, 58 minutes, Generative Sound via Light-Controlled Synthesizers)

Patrick Müller, film still from Into the Realm of the Night (2022, Germany, Super 8, 5:40 minutes, sound)

Álvaro Feldman, film still from Untitled Sketch #2 (2022, Spain, Super 8, 2:30 minutes, silent)

07/28/2023

07/28/2023

⚠️ CORRECTION
An error with the website about in-person locations has been fixed.

All the8fest in-person screenings, performances and workshops are happening at:

Beaver Hall Gallery
29 McCaul St, Toronto, ON M5T 1V7

07/28/2023

the8fest starts TONIGHT!
IN-PERSON at Beaver Hall29 McCaul St, Toronto, ON M5T 1V7

Online programs now LIVE at the8fest.com!
Please see the links in our bio to access the on-demand Bageroos.

Come celebrate small gauge filmmaking at it's finest, and see fabulous films together. Don't miss out on the the8fest merch for sale at the festival!

Film still credits:
Louise Noguchi, film still from commissioned film The Return (2023, Canada, Super 8, 3:56 minutes, sound)
Featured in Bageroo #1 - We Were, We Are, We Will Be, Friday, July 28 at 8:00PM co-presented by Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)

Sofia Perez Tudela, film still from este agosto estuvimos grabando un retrato (this august we recorded a portrait) (2022, Spain, Super 8, 3:44 minutes, silent)
Featured in Bageroo #1 - We Were, We Are, We Will Be, Friday, July 28 at 8:00PM co-presented by Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)

Gerald Saul, film still from Hi Dad (2022, Canada, Super 8, 3:30 minutes, sound)
Featured in Bageroo #1 - We Were, We Are, We Will Be, Friday, July 28 at 8:00PM co-presented by Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)

Eduardo Gutiérrez Carrera, film still from Restituting (2023, Perú, Super 8, 2:06 minutes, sound)
Featured in Bageroo #1 - We Were, We Are, We Will Be, Friday, July 28 at 8:00PM co-presented by Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)

Sara Bulloch & Derek McMechan, film still from Muddy Buddy (2019, Canada, Super 8, 1:15 minutes, sound)
Featured in Bageroo #2 - Merry-Go-Round, Friday, July 28 at 9:00PM sponsored by Pleasure Dome

Rennie Taylor, film still from Spinning (2019, Canada, Super 8, 2:30 minutes, silent)
Featured in Bageroo #2 - Merry-Go-Round, Friday, July 28 at 9:00PM sponsored by Pleasure Dome

Maxime Michel, film still from Ritmo (2022, France, Super 8, 3:17 minutes, sound)
Featured in Online Bageroo #1 - Sight, Sound, and Mind co-Presented with Images Festival

Guillaume Vallee, film still from Grandmother Piano (2020, Canada, Super 8, 5:00 minutes, sound)
Featured in Online Bageroo #2 - Processing the Process co-Presented with Images Festival

07/27/2023

🎉 the 16th edition of the8fest starts TOMORROW!
July 28 to July 30, 2023
with live, in-person events
and online on-demand programs at the8fest.com

Check out the digital catalogue online for full programming details!
https://publuu.com/flip-book/196230/478272/page/1

Film still credits:
Kourtney Jackson, still from commissioned film Cerca De Ti (2023, Canada, Super 8, 3:16 minutes, silent)
featured in Bageroo #1 - We Were, We Are, We Will Be, Friday, July 28 at 8:00PM co-presented by Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)

Jefferson Crawford, still from Bird Empire (2022, Canada, Super 8, 3:00 minutes, sound)
featured in Bageroo #2 - Merry-Go-Round, Friday, July 28 at 9:00PM sponsored by Pleasure Dome

07/26/2023

the8fest is pleased to present:
Places, Observations and Vignettes (POVs)
Curated by Robin Riad and Rennie Taylor

Sunday, July 30th, 3:00pm
Beaver Hall
29 McCaul St, Toronto, ON M5T 1V7

Places, Observations & Vignettes (POVs), shows three distinct voices from a professional artist to a documentary photographer and an experimental filmmaker. Spanning from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, these Super 8 films have never been publicly viewed in their entirety until now. Themes of time, cycles and destruction, portended or literal, are evident in these films. Artist John Coburn’s New York City takes us on a journey through the iconic city with curious eyes and whose sharp attention and deep affection of Manhattan would later help define his career. Documentary photographer and writer Judy Blankenship’s critical lens of the devastation of downtown Batavia, New York, has echoes to present conservation concerns, particularly in Toronto. Experimental filmmaker Barbara Sternberg’s passage through the elements takes the universal subject of water, fire and air and transforms them into poetic visions of place. POVs bring old work into new contexts, highlighting the point of views of visions within Super 8.

The program includes:
John Coburn’s New York City, Parts 1 & 2 (1980) – 25 minutes

Judy Blankenship’s Destruction of Buildings in Batavia, New York (1973-74) – 30 minutes

Barbara Sternberg’s Elemental (1990s) – 15 minutes

Film still credit:
John Coburn, still from New York City, Parts 1 & 2 (1980, Super 8, 25 minutes)

07/25/2023

FULL festival catalogue and schedule of the 16th annual the8fest is now available online!

https://publuu.com/flip-book/196230/475963/page/1

07/25/2023

JUST ANNOUNCED!
Additional Home Movie History Project Screening at the8fest!

Sunday, July 30th at 8:00pm
Beaver Hall
29 McCaul St, Toronto, ON M5T 1V7

For anyone who missed the8fest in Scarborough event, this is your chance to see FROM CAPE TOWN TO SCARBOROUGH: Life Through the Immigrant's Eye

07/24/2023

the8fest is pleased to announce two on-demand virtual programs available from
Friday July 28 to Monday August 1, 2023
at the8fest.com

Online Bageroo #1: Sight, Sound, and Mind
Co-Presented by Images Festival

Behold our debut intentional program on unprojectable films! The selected films exemplify the beauty of colour-negative Super8 film, and the contemporary practices of creating Super8 work in the 21st century. Join us for a colourful and electric visual program, online and on-demand.

With work by Erren Franklin, Juan Ignacio Slobayen, Maxime Michel, Joel Rodriguez, Tim Dübbert and Erren Franklin
...

Online Program #2: Processing the Process
Co-Presented by Images Festival

This shorts program explores the process of grief, the experience of loss, and the journey towards acceptance.

With work by Rennie Taylor, Guillaume Vallée, Dominick Rivers and Rachel Evans.

Film Still Credits:
Rennie Tayler, still from Dissolution (2022, Canada, Super 8, 2:30 minutes, sound)

Rachel Evans, still from Demons of the Deep (2020, Super 8/16mm, 9:57 minutes, sound)

Erren Franklin, still from A Rainbow In Curved Air (2022, Double 8mm, 13:23 minutes, sound)