Hi8 Tag Archive

Live Action

Louise Weard Confronts Gender, Sex Work and Queer Friendship in Indie Epic ‘Castration Movie i: Traps’

Incels, Intimacy & Infertility: Louise Weard dissects her anarchic approach to directing her gut-punching queer epic.

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Awards, Documentary

Molly O’Brien’s ‘The Only Girl in the Orchestra’ Celebrates a Life Well Lived as a Musician at the Vanguard

Molly O'Brien takes DN inside the creation of her Netflix Oscar winning doc short about the trailblazing musician Orin O’Brien and her beloved instruments.

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Live Action, Music Video

Waley Wang’s ‘Teen Troubles in Dirty Jersey’ Captures the Thrums of Punk, Toxic Masculinity & Disaffected Angst

Waley Wang discusses combining 16mm & Hi8 home video style footage to fully embody the nostalgic memories of The Black Skirts' New Jersey punk roots.

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Documentary

Andree Ljutica Chronicles a Day in a Life on Parole in Non-Conventional Doc ‘Seven Hundred Fifty-Six’

Andree Ljutica unpacks the blend of reenactment and narrativised planning that form the non-traditional style of his empathic parole documentary short.

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Speaking in Voltages Guillermo Irriguible

Documentary, Music Video

Guillermo Irriguible Loren Pays Homage to Analog Music with his Analog Short Film ‘Speaking in Voltages’

Shot on 16mm, Super8 & Hi8, director Guillermo Irriguible Loren joins us to discuss his ode to nostalgia and the golden era of analogue instruments.

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