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The short film Ultimate Super 8 is finished since a year, and runs in various international film festivals. Already four selections, including two in the United States. Many positives feedback from the community of short films. A more ambitious version is alredy in preparation.

Synopsis

A journalist interviews a peasant film maker, fan of Super 8 films. The film maker confess his doubts, aspirations and his will to fight against digital media sources. He constantly struggle, day by day, to maintain a vision in which the image will not only be seen as a simple information, but also as a human, warm and sensitive support. But agents from the Techno Center are watching him... and soon will force the cineast to commit his worst nightmare: to burn his own films.

“It's the film of the families of the 60s, of the individualistic amateur that wants to communicate experiences like holidays and travels to his relatives. The cinema goes into lounges, it is the democratization of films.”

“Super 8 is an obsolete method, it is more and more difficult to find the material to make these films or develop them, but this archaic character is precisely what interests me.”

“Making a personal, individual, creative, artistic work with a special vintage touch, with a human heat.

“You can find this latency in super 8, which is more a home-made process of maturation, of transposition, while the digital technology is almost a cinematic incontinence, it is an opened faucet, ad eternam!”

“The super 8 energy is specific to the cinematographic media. It's the intern movement of the picture, in time and in seizing the event.”

“Events that are shared by a general public are diluted in the mass and in the space. What is much more interesting is to seize micro-events, to be interested in more personal and  sensitive sensations…”

Festival, Award

1. ‣selected St. Petersburg International Youth Film Festival Oct. 2008
   

2. ‣selected Lakedance International Film Festival Sept. 2007
   

3. ‣selected 16th  Woods Hole Film Festival August 2007
   

Credit

1. ‣Original title: Ultimate Super 8
   

2. ‣Producer: Addict Films
   

3. ‣Director: Mathieu Peteul
   

4. ‣Writer: Mathieu Peteul
   

5. ‣Release Date: 09/2007
   

6. ‣Genre: Documentary, Experimental, Thriller, Science-fiction
   

7. ‣Cast: André Dussoix, Guillaume De Candolle, Xavier Dussoix, Mathieu Peteul
   

8. ‣Run Time: 12 min 25 sec
   

9. ‣Country: France, Switzerland
   

10. ‣Language: Norwegian,
    

11. ‣Subtitles: French, English subtiltles Shoting
    

12. ‣Format: Super 8 (1:33)
    

13. ‣Screning Format: DigiBeta (1.33)