One Take Super 8 Screenings

My-Le Vu (she/her) is a second-generation Vietnamese screenwriter. The Way Back Home is a love letter to the neighbourhood she grew up in and an appreciation for the pure, limitless imagination children have. This is her first time working with Super8. Child My-Le would’ve also had a blast with it.

Due to a scheduling mixup, I ended up only having a single evening to plan and shoot my film. I lugged the camera up to the summit of Scafe Hill in Thetis Lake Regional Park and started shooting without much of a plan. The result is a series of simple nature shots that I hope will be relaxing and immersive. If not – it was a learning experience!

Deprogrammer is a proof-of-concept, a hypothesis, and an inquiry. A visual mood board for Eva Grant’s feature screenplay Apotheosis, about a brilliant but unorthodox cult deprogrammer’s quest for freedom at any cost. Deprogrammer explores memory, identity, and consciousness in a series of baseline tests. The Tooth & Nail Team are weirdos.

The idea for The Coast is Clear began as an experimental take on the 116 year-old English tongue twister “she sells seashells on the sea shore” by Terry Sullivan. What if there was more to the story of the woman selling seashells than we previously knew? The coastal setting added another layer of word play which became central to the plot. As farmers and aspiring filmmakers, Jacqueline Morassutti and Cory Pahl set out to create a story that showcased a love of language and land.

For more than 4 years, I have been part of a group of volleyball players that play every weekend during the summer and spring. I have made so many beautiful memories and I made this film to capture a moment in time where I got to hangout with these amazing people. It only felt right to do this with a super 8 camera because of the nostalgic quality of capturing something in film. This is a film that our group can look back at many years later and cherish the friendships and memories that were made.

Cooking with Carol is a satirical short about a woman’s escape from the confines of the “perfect life.” Inspired by 1950s TV ads and gender norms, it delves into the tension between societal expectations and suppressed desires. Amina, a filmmaker who has worked in all facets of film from Directing and Cinamatography to Production Design teamed up with Kristy, a Screenwriter working in production. The two first connected on the set of a Christmas movie in the art department where their shared creative vision sparked collaboration exploring conformity and rebellion.

Johnny Cole is a 23 year old filmmaker and screenwriting student living in Victoria BC. With a focus on the human condition, his films attempt to give insight into the complications of being alive, while translating complex feelings and motives to screen. Digging Ditches is Johnny’s first foray into Super 8 filmmaking, and an attempt to grapple with the perception of death. Does the view change when confronted with your own reflection?

Erika and Conor met a year ago working in the art department on a short film. This Super 8 is the first film they have written and made together and are currently working on the next one. Engraved is about a couple celebrating their wedding and doing what they love. All couples have different ways of keeping their love alive. Thanks to the talented cast, Sydney McClintock, Owen Weitzel, and Cooper Kopec.

Hi I’m Maddie and I’m a student at UVic currently working on writing and film studies. The concept for this short came together quickly while I was at work and I was able to shoot a few days following. My inspiration mainly came from the model of final girl films as well as a 60’s noir version of those anti-piracy ads. I wanted to make something suspenseful but that didn’t take itself too seriously.

Hannah is a multiply disabled, neurodivergent, queer, and a non-binary (trans+) person, and bring these intersectional marginalised identities to all the work that they do, including creative projects. Hannah is also a white British settler on ləkw̓ əŋən lands. This film is a journey with Hannah to see the world through their eyes if only for a moment. The film was inspired by “I am me” a spoken word poem Hannah wrote to explore the various seen and unseen aspects of identity that create the self.

Jeffrey Ellom is a settler of West African and European descent who creates film and sound art. Anastomosis of Sunlit Generations pays tribute to evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, whose book Symbiotic Planet is excerpted throughout. This pieces traces through microcosms of emergence and convergence, celebrating the ways that all are interdependent. Anastomosis, the fusing of branches or converging of streams, describes the ways that distant relatives return to each other, again and again. Many thanks to the Hul’q’umi’num’ speaking peoples, the Lekwungen speaking peoples, and the W̱ SÁNEĆ nations, on whose lands this film was created.

Wash Over
Aya Behr

Aya Behr (They/Them) is a Black and Jewish high school student passionate about fostering community building through art. Born and raised on the territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, Aya is influenced by their parents, who come both from diasporic communities. Their heritage fuels Aya’s dedication to using art to bring people together and create inclusive spaces. In Wash Over the foggy shore of Willows Beach washes curls that flow and dance in waves. Gentle finger combing and serene waves parallel each other in Wash Over offering a glimpse into the magnitude of Black hair care.

Nikki has been grateful to be a visitor on Coast Salish territory since 2015, after growing up in the Okanagan. She is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily works with sound, clay and film as her mediums. This piece is her 4th short film and focuses on the representation of yearning for something that’s not quite in reach. A special thank you to Andrea Skylerk for filming and lending her Volvo to be used in the shoot!

Alex Skorochid is a writer and visual artist who lives with his partner and two sons in Victoria, BC. His film ‘Worms’ is intended as a celebration of the resiliency of the earth and the joy of children shown through the simple act of digging for worms. That said–if there isn’t a saying about working with children and animals… there should be.

With a sense of aimlessness, uncertainty, and concern, ‘the pull of the no longer and the not yet’ was intended to be a film searching for the ghosts that haunt these sacred yet exploited lands…but perhaps it captured something else. Lee Ingram is a multi/inter-interdisciplinary artist and storyteller based between Lək̓wəŋən territories (Victoria) and Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Working primarily with the body, Lee focuses on improvisation and experimentation, with attention to rhythmical qualities, processes, and patterns. Interested in interactions between people and environments, Lee engages in everyday gestures, sounds, feelings, and sensations to connect various realms and spaces, both present and ancestral.