From Super 8 film cameras to the West End: Shorts from Cannes Film Festival be screened in London

A film competition called Straight 8 has selected 50 new films to be screened
Amy Ashenden4 June 2016

Short films created on Super 8 analogue cameras are making their way from Cannes Film Festival to London’s West End – with no editing.

Film competition Straight 8 has selected 50 new shorts, each produced on a single, unedited cartridge of Kodak Super 8 film, to be screened at Vue Piccadilly and in Regent Street.

The 50 films, which are just over 3 minutes long and were submitted from around the world, include eight that recently premiered at Cannes Film Festival.

The remaining 42 will be screened for the first time at Vue Piccadilly on Regent Street, on June 5 and 12 at 6pm.

Founded in 1999, straight 8 films have previously featured The Gherkin building in the City and Spitalfields captured in black and white.

Gunter: A previous entry by Nick White and Ollie Campbell

Founder Ed Sayers said: “The rules of Straight 8 are that you have to complete your entire film on that one cartridge – you only get a single take of every shot and you have to take every shot in story order.”

This year’s selection has been filmed at several locations across the capital, including Hackney, Harringay, Peckham and Oxford Street.

Filmmaker Alex Glynn said: “Making the film is a crazy adrenaline rush because almost all the Super 8 cameras are trigger activated so when you press it down, the trigger pulsates against your finger as the film is running through the camera.

“I was drawn to this kind of filmmaking because it’s just so raw – it’s quite a cool entrance point both to the world of film and to filmmaking in general.”

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