Super8/16mm film has been co-opted by the DSLR reactionalists, and now what we are beginning to realize, much as we did when High Definition became second nature, is that a film cannot impress us simply because it was shot onto celluloid. It has to have some depth and sincerity. I believe we are reaching the high water mark of surface reaction to these new/old aesthetics, and I hope that instead of searching for a new surface, we begin to think introspectively and let what we find inform our choices. For too long we have been doing to opposite.
-Daniel Watkins
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