SUPER NATURE: A Love Letter to Nature
- Cinelab Film & Digital
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read
Super Nature is a feature documentary - and a love letter to nature and our connection to it - shot entirely on Super 8 film by people connecting across the world, with barely any travel. Following its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and subsequent screenings at festivals across Europe, the film's North American premiere will take place at DC/Dox on Sunday 14th June at 4.15pm at the Regal.
Director Ed Sayers founded the Super 8 filmmaking competition straight 8, and the initial inspiration for the film came from Roger Batteault's Super 8 short films made for that competition.
All 82 minutes of Super Nature were captured entirely on Super 8 film - including the credits and titles. The bulk of the film was shot on new Kodak stocks: 50D, 200T, 500T, Tri-X, Ektachrome 100D, and Super 8 250D, along with some expired Vision2 200T and Ektachrome 160. Two ancient rolls of Agfa Moviechrome also feature.
Most of the film was processed at Cinelab Film & Digital, with additional processing at Andec and specialist and home processing by Adrian Cousins, John Salim, Ben Slotover, and Frank Bruinsma of Super 8 Reversal Lab (Netherlands) - the last handling the EM-26 process for the Ektachrome 160. All film scanning was carried out at Cinelab.
The production team engaged filmmakers around the world, sending cameras and film to those who needed them: 40 filmmakers, 25 countries, 80 vintage Super 8 cameras.
