Danny Plotnick's "Super 8: An Illustrated History" available June 9, 2020 where all fine books are sold. Hundreds of original photos, vintage advertisements & illustrations, dozens of filmmaker interviews, and a history of the format rolled into a beautiful 240 page art book. Available for purchase from Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes & Nobles and Rare Bird Books. Amazon: https://amzn.to/3af83l9 Indiebound: https://bit.ly/32GdBTh Barnes & Noble: https://bit.ly/2PEAAIV Rare Bird Books: https://bit.ly/2VCm8or https://www.dannyplotnick.com/merchandise Super 8: An Illustrated History is a coffee table art book showcasing the history of Super 8 filmmaking. In addition to featuring stunning photography documenting the sleek mid-century design of Super 8 cameras and projectors, the book will be filled with vintage advertisements and eye-catching illustrations from Super 8’s heyday. Super 8: An Illustrated History also offers up a detailed history of this beloved film medium. Super 8 burst onto the film scene in 1965, conquering the home movie market. The book explores the research and development that went into creating a brand new format. Not only was Super 8 embraced by suburban dads, the target audience of the format, but it was soon co-opted by the art world, found a home in the punk rock universe, and ultimately seeped into popular culture. Filmmakers who got their start in Super 8 include, Robert Zemeckis, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes, Sam Raimi, Wes Anderson and Alex Gibney. A healthy twenty-year run was followed by barren years, starting with the rise of the camcorder in the 1980s. Super 8 filmmakers struggled as companies ceased manufacturing equipment and film labs stopped providing services for filmmakers. Yet somehow Super 8 managed to persevere. Many artists continued shooting Super 8 throughout the lean years. Thanks in part to a renewed interest in analog technologies, Kodak plans on bringing a new Super 8 camera to market in 2019, their first new camera to roll off the assembly line in over thirty years. Super 8: An Illustrated History also features interviews with and essays by filmmakers who got their start in Super 8, and with pioneers who were instrumental in the development of the medium. These interviews are revelatory, showcasing how young artists, working with no budgets and with little-to-no formal training, managed to make impactful movies and give voice to international subcultures. Interviews include Richard Linklater (Slacker, Boyhood, Dazed and Confused), Dave Markey (1991: The Year Punk Broke), Rocky Schenk (music video director for Adele, Devo, Nick Cave, The Cramps, Robert Plant), James Mackay on Derek Jarman (The Last of England, Jubilee), Lenny Lipton (The Super 8 Book), Beth B (Black Box), James Nares (Rome ’78), G.B. Jones (The Lollipop Generation), Bruce LaBruce (Super 8 1/2, The Misandrists), Lisa Marr & Paolo Davanzo (Echo Park Film Center), Marc Huestis (The Gay Film Festival of Super-8 Films), Peggy Ahwesh (Martina’s Playhouse), Paul Sheptow (Super-8 Filmaker magazine), Ed Sayers (The Straight 8 Film Festival), Melinda Stone (Super Super 8 Film Festival), Jonathan Tyman (Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival), Norwood Cheek (Flicker zine and screening series), Martha Colburn, Narcisa Hirsch, silt, Matthias Müller, John Porter, and Karissa Hahn. On the technical front, the book features interviews with Frank Bruinsma (Super8 Reversal Lab), Bob Doyle (Super8 Sound), Tommy Madsen (Logmar Camera Solutions), Phil Vigeant (Pro8mm), and Roland Zavada (Kodak). Danny Plotnick has been making Super 8 films since the mid-1980s and earned the nickname “The King of Super 8". Not only have his films screened at festivals all over the world, but they have also aired on MTV, on The Independent Film Channel, and screened at the Museum of Modern Art. His film Skate Witches has a fervent internet following, and has been covered in The New York Times, Vogue and Maximum Rocknroll. Plotnick’s films have been sought out for inclusion in the Hugh Hefner Moving Image archive at USC, which has started archiving a collection of punk rock and small gauge cinema. Danny Plotnick is currently the director of Film Studies at the University of San Francisco. He was also the founder and publisher of Motorbooty, a seminal magazine in the independent music and comics world of the 1980s and 1990s.

A little stop motion video to celebrate Danny Plotnick's latest publication, Super 8: An Illustrated History. This book offers a deep dive into the world of small gauge, analog filmmaking, and is packed full of stunning visuals that celebrate the medium in all of its glory. Setup: Sony A7sii Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM Peak Design Travel Tripod - Camera Inverted for top-down shooting Westcott Solix Bi-Color 1-Light Kit with Apollo Orb Process: 6 days from start to finish 1,053 unique frames to animate every page turn Sound recorded in living room with Rode Wireless Go + Lav Behind the scenes video coming soon!

As part of our ongoing film series profiling creative people who inspire us, we had the opportunity to tell the story of Danny Plotnick. Danny is an exceptional filmmaker who entered the film world by storm in the 1980's. He since has created a handful of punk-inspired short films and music videos, garnering attention from museums, film festivals and awards all over. We are honored that our little film about Danny was one of 10 short films accepted at the 2019 Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival. We love telling the stories of creative individuals. These inspire our day to day work in content strategy and creating content for brands. Danny is currently the director of the Film Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. Not coincidentally, he also happens to be a former professor (and current mentor) for a couple of us Teakers.

The 20th Anniversary Edition of Danny Plotnick and The Icky Boyfirends "I’m Not Fascinating—The Movie!" is available on Vimeo on Demand here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/notfascinating 20 years removed from its world premiere on Valentine’s Day 1996 at The Viper Room in Los Angeles, this movie – shot entirely on now-obsolete Super-8 sync sound film stock and precariously held together by splicing tape – is finally being given the deluxe re-release treatment with a brand new, HD transfer and accompanied by a gut-busting smorgasbord of bonus features and never-before-released live concert footage of the band. This new transfer is undoubtedly better than the film deserves but despite its hi-def sheen (*cough*), no-budget cinephile purists can rest easy knowing that the original’s many “weirdly beautiful” visual flaws are all still ingloriously intact.