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Shot on Ektachrome Super 8, transferred to HD.

First shown at the Harris Theatre in downtown Pittsburgh, as part of the 2009 Film Kitchen contest and the Three Rivers Arts Festival.

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Blake Whitman 5 months ago

Really enjoyed this, Astral. So many good stories.

Reminds me of all the stories my family would tell me about this certain haunted room at my Grandparents' place.
Daniel Gomez 5 months ago

edited or striagt film,it dont matter,this was soothing.
Lin Lin 5 months ago

this video gives me a weird feeling,makes me to think a lot.
Lee 5 months ago

中国女孩？
jk200333 5 months ago

Bruce Lee?
Lee 5 months ago

I am Yong Lee,I love kung fu ! I love Bruce Lee!
Lin Lin 5 months ago

是的。
你也是吗？
Lee 5 months ago

是啊，湖北人。
dreamy 5 months ago

nice to see chinese!
Nikio 5 months ago

Funny... after seing this I rested still in my chair, contemplating random stuff... really well done.
johance quijada 5 months ago

so great video congratulation

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Kelsey Thurber 5 months ago

this gave me goosebumps! the voices in conjunction with the music and video was all very well done :]
Rudolf Boogerman 5 months ago

Very intriguing! Loved every second of it!
Excellent art movie.
jakyung im 5 months ago

I love this video..
Lauri Suoperä 5 months ago

I love the music, any chance of getting it from somewhere?

The video is pretty nice too. Even I think it's very well done, despite the fact that I don't care much for the paranormal...
Astral Sled 5 months ago

Thanks! The music is by a band/artist called DURDEN. The song is called "You can miss what you never had." I got it from CCmixter.org. It has a creative commons attribution license. The full song has more instruments and tracks, but I chose only certain ones for the movie.
Josecuervo86 5 months ago

Really cool!
Samu Ainesmaa 5 months ago

Fantastic.
myself 5 months ago

that was awesone what did you edit this with?
Astral Sled 5 months ago

edited digitally with final cut pro.
jake dupre 5 months ago

love it
Evelyn Fisher 5 months ago

this is epic
malcolm man 5 months ago

I love these kinds of stories.

Love the 16mm as well.
xiaoyiBOX 5 months ago

so nice stories
glenn bradley morales 5 months ago

love s8, did you shoot it off the screen? Pitt rules, my home town.
Spencer Tuckerman 5 months ago

question: how did u transfer this to digital? (or HD for that matter)

btw awesome video. loved the s8
Astral Sled 5 months ago

i used a projector shooting into a mirror box (it's a box that recieves the image through a small screen you project onto, and then a mirror inside reflects the image out through a small window which you can focus a camera on) and an HVX 200 to do the capturing. it takes some fiddling with color temperature and exposure to get it to look right but it's the best way to transfer in my experience.

thanks for the comment!
Lee 5 months ago

like a dream. love it! 很棒！
christos p. 5 months ago

nice work! did you trnsfer the super8 footage yourself?
how if you dont mind saying?
im experimenting a bit myself on transferring s8 footage...
Astral Sled 5 months ago

i used a projector shooting into a mirror box (it's a box that recieves the image through a small screen you project onto, and then a mirror inside reflects the image out through a small window which you can focus a camera on) and an HVX 200 to do the capturing. it takes some fiddling with color temperature and exposure to get it to look right but it's the best way to transfer in my experience. if you want any tips or advice feel free to message me. :)
christos p. 5 months ago

thanks a lot ! did you use one of this ¨telecine¨ mirror boxes that one can buy of ebay or built your own?? so how did you deal with the framerate issue??
thanks again! :)
Astral Sled 5 months ago

i used one of these:
oaktreevintage.com/web_photos/8mm_Film/Studio_Goldline_V_CP-720_Film_to_Video_Transfer_box_web.jpg

surprisingly the framerate issue was more or less nonexistant. i really didn't get any flicker just filming at the standard setting.
tuhawka 5 months ago

Hi!!
I love this video and textures.

byess
Emil Örn Kristjánsson 5 months ago

Beautiful video. My parents have a Super 8.. It's "purty dang" cool..
Florian Eichin 5 months ago

wow realy realy nice and wonderfull!!!
did you do any collor correction or is it that 8mm camera? if you did collor correction, you did it very well!
respect
Astral Sled 5 months ago

thanks!
i did not do any color correction in post. i did adjust the color temperature and exposure on the camera that i transferred with, but that was just to get it to match the original film as closely as possible. these colors are all from the film itself-- it came out very nice!
Scar Knee 5 months ago

Is that Mike Bonello's voice I hear? Nice video, by the way. It makes me feel nostalgic for a past I never lived.
Astral Sled 5 months ago

yep. he tells the seance story!
Leon Aguilera Radford 5 months ago

Very effective as a way to tell a story of the supernatural. I quietly enjoyed it. Which camera did you used? Congrats for this short, very good.
Astral Sled 5 months ago

thank you!
i used a canon 814 XL-S.
Jordan Kelley 5 months ago

Very enjoyable. I loved it.
Patrick Johnson 5 months ago

It's great to see old school super 8 online. Great use of both image and sound as separate entities but working in a complimentary fashion.
vally trice 5 months ago

very impressive video.thx.
Ben Smith 5 months ago

super 8 is something else...but what I really admire here is your creativity in the sound track.

nice piece Astral.

:)
Sanitary Sanity 5 months ago

Great photography .

It truly makes me want to start doing stuff like this. Thank you for yet another great piece of art.
Escudero Javier 5 months ago

Really beautiful!
Isabel Alberty 5 months ago

i really love it
47670778 5 months ago

me too :)
Jin Dong 5 months ago

看起来不错，可惜听不太懂
Rachel Czajkowski 5 months ago

Wow. Thumbs up!
Scott Lowrey 5 months ago

I love the way you made this, it's very much like a dream.
Ian Daly 4 months ago

The music is too interfering for the entire first half.
gabriel élansson 3 months ago

ahora si, visita mi perfil, el video tiene sonido y estoy subiendo otros nuevos! saludos!
brimbleline 14 days ago

I keep coming back to this film - it's beautiful.