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2025 United States Super 8 Film + DV Festival line-up for Saturday, February 15!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/12/2025



Still from A Return to Eden by Broderick Rule

The 2025 United States Super 8 Film + DV Festival begins this Saturday, February 15. Here is the line-up for the two programs slated for this date.

Saturday, February 15, 2025 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM!

2025 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival Day 1 - Program 1                             

View the winning films and digital videos of the International United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival, selected by a jury of filmmakers, Rutgers University student interns, and media professionals. The festival--now in its 37th year—will feature finalist works by independent filmmakers from the United States and around the world. Co-sponsored by Pro 8mm and OVID!

The Itch – Emma Hamel (USA) The desire to create overshadowed by a desperate desire to be good. A frantic state of wanting and the paralysis that accompanies it. 2024; 3 min.

Launching Lagrange – William Pierce (USA) The physics of skateboarding is going to outer space. 2024; 3 min.




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Lavinia – Sarah Dutton (United Kingdom) Lavinia is inspired by a character from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronichus. Despite undergoing a huge transformation within the play, Sarah felt that there was a key moment in Lavinia’s character arc that was not featured in the text. 2024; 3 min.

Fed up – Annabelle Vine (United Kingdom) Seymour, a gentleman of the road, is hungry and fed up. He is overjoyed when a secret benefactor leaves him daily treats, but maybe it would have been wise to look this gift horse in the mouth. 2024; 4 min.

Haunted Cursed Anxious Hateful – Brandon Scullion (USA) Two men, haunted by the realities of their lives, confined by their bodies and surroundings, engage in a hateful battle of wills with dreadful consequences. 2024; 4 min.

No Signal – M-Alain Bertoni (USA) All she knows comes from the screens. All she has known is the screens. When one breaks, it changes everything. 2024; 5 min.

garboface – Zona Gilreath (USA) garboface is an experimental, sort-of-narrative film about, as Roland Barthes puts it, face-as-object and, as Plato definitely didn't put it, identity as pharmakon—simultaneously cure and toxin. Shot on Super 8 and edited digitally. 2024; 6 min.

Rain – Vasilios Papaioannu (USA) Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast-paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people. 2024; 6 min

Who the F**k is Jacky Bumpers? – Alan Halls (USA) In a dark, grimy corner of a bar somewhere in LA, three old Barflies get to bickering about one salty, charming, two-faced swindler from the past... So, pull up a barstool, get a drink and find out just "who the F**k is Jacky Bumpers?" in this candy colored Super 8mm film. 2024; 6 min.




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Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room – Jeremiah Carter (USA) Heartbroken, Madeline goes out on the town ruminating on the cyclical nature of love. She passes from one thrill to another looking for answers. Relationships come and go but memories are forever. 2024; 9 min.

Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time – James P Gannon and Matt Ferrin (USA) In America, the things we create we also find a way to destroy. We follow four people who have never met but will smash each other to smithereens in a Demolition Derby. 2024; 12 min.

A Return to Eden – Broderick Rule (Canada) A young woman falls victim to a local psychopathic murderer. Upon her death, she awakens in a surreal forest, a 'limbo' with an identity of its own, that helps her make it back to the land of the living, so that she can take revenge against her killer. 2024; 14 min.  

 

Still from Memorabilia by Todd Verow, Charles Lum

Saturday, February 15, 2025 – Online for 24 Hours!

2025 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival Day 1 – Program 2       


View the winning films and digital videos of the International United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival, selected by a jury of filmmakers, Rutgers University student interns, and media professionals. The festival--now in its 37th year—will feature finalist works by independent filmmakers from the United States and around the world. Co-sponsored by Pro 8mm and OVID!

Memorabilia – Todd Verow, Charles Lum (USA) An older gay man tries to remember all his past lovers. 2024; 70 min.

The 2025 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival which is part of the New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on Saturday, February 15 and Sunday, February 16. The 4 film programs will be Online for 24 Hours on their show dates and there will be 2 In-Person screenings at 7PM on February 15 and at 5PM on February 16 in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ. Each General Admission Ticket is good for both the virtual and the in-person screenings when both are offered.  General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; In-Person Show Student Ticket = $10 Per Program.  Get more info and tickets here.

The 43rd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 24-March 2, 2025. The Festival will be a hybrid one as it will be presented online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VoD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person screenings. Plus, acclaimed singer-songwriter Renee Maskin will be doing an audio-visual concert on Friday, February 21 at 7PM and there will be a special benefit in-person screening of the film Bucha on March 2 at 5PM! The in-person screenings and the Renee Maskin concert will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM or 7PM on their show date. General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$120; Bucha Benefit Screening=$20; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program.
  For more info go here: 

https://newjerseyfilmfestivalspring2025.eventive.org/welcome



Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened throughout the world. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc.

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