Mystery Film

 

This weekend was spent organising storage boxes and locating misplaced film equipment.  Old cameras and lenses.  I found this forgotten old Super 8mm cartridge in a box, no idea what’s on it, how old it is or even if it’s one that I shot.  Mysterious.  I don’t have a Kodak envelope for it, and I think there aren’t any Kodak labs honouring the old prepaid envelopes these days anyway.  It’s been at least 20 years since I shot anything on my super 8 cameras!

After googling around I found a company called Gauge Film that advertises processing and telecine for S8 and 16mm films, so I’ve booked this mystery cart in for development.  We shall see what happens.  Maybe nothing, maybe an old film of mine or maybe some random film from someone else.  

Over to you Gauge Film. https://www.gaugefilm.co.uk/

Back out of the darkness.  Radio silence.  It’s been nearly ten years since I last updated this blog.  A major move of location, change of job and plenty of procrastination.  Ten years... wow.

A lot of water under the bridge in that time, a whole generation of camera tech, the DSLR fad has come and gone, 35mm adaptors are history, there have been huge changes in tv and film production, streaming services like YouTube and Netflix have come of age... things have really moved on.

Ok so my first order of business is to get back into the swing of things, a quick update... the plane crash short film is finished, I went with the title ‘Tacoma’ in the end, that was the working title (loosely based on the idea of structural failure) and I fully intended to come up with a new title but somehow the working title just felt right.

Tacoma was submitted to various festivals but not a lot of interest, it’s not really a festival film, not art house enough and so I’ve decided to move on from short films.

I’ve got ten years worth of experience, and plenty of new filmmaking gear.  Next project will be the big one.  My first feature length film.  I’ve got a script in development and plenty of ideas.

Onwards!