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2022 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/22/2022


The 34th annual 2022 United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival, which just concluded, is the largest and longest running juried festival of its kind in North America. The festival encourages any genre (including animation, documentary, personal, narrative, and experimental) made on Super 8mm/8mm film, Hi 8mm/8mm, or digital video. Here are the films that are this year’s award winners.



2022 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners

Best of the Festival


Hallucinations – M. Wild (New York, New York)

Deerwoods Deathtrap – James Gannon (Brooklyn, New York)

Honorable Mention

Noösphere – Miles Sprietsma (Portland, Oregon)

Parenthesis – Vasilios Papaioannu (Washington, DC)

III. – Tim Dübbert (Mönchengladbach, Germany)

Polavision, An Instant Failure – Álex López (Ferrol, Spain)

Getting That Note Out – Francesca Soans (Waterloo, Iowa)



The 2022 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival, which is part of the Spring 2022 The New Jersey Film Festival is funded and/or sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts - Funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund; The Rutgers University Office of Summer and Winter Sessions; OVID/Icarus Films,  The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program;  Rutgers University Writer’s House; Pro 8mm; WRSU; New Jersey StageThe Home News TribuneThe Asbury Park Press; New Brunswick City Center; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Grunin Foundation; Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation; Rutgers-Newark; New Jersey Theatre Alliance; ArtPride New Jersey; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.



Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened throughout the world. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc.




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