By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Both an indelible document of love, and a manifesto for the persistence of a work which refuses to leave behind the insuperable qualities of light and touch, 8 super 8 es a unique book-object, a testimony of eight years of work by the team of (S8) Peripheral Cinema Festival (Mostra de Cinema Periferico), through the words and images of a vast numbers of collaborators.
Review by Adrian Martin
Dirk de Bruyn’s book is a bold and original piece of in-depth, sustained research that brings together two areas have never been brought into relationship in this way, at this length. On the one hand, there is the lineage of experimental audiovisual work. (I personally dislike the visual-centric term ‘moving image art’ – sound has been around for a while now! – but each person chooses their own label, wisely or not.)
Review by Therese Grisham
This is an under-appreciated, under-analyzed, but vital time in the life of Chicago, as well as in the early film industry. Most of the important players at this time started out in Chicago–such as Gilbert “Broncho Billy”Anderson–or worked in Chicago (Chaplin, Micheaux), so the omission of Chicago from histories of early film is egregious. Flickering Empire rectifies this omission.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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