The 2026 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival, which is part of the Spring 2026 New Jersey Film Festival, takes place online and in-person on Saturday, February 21 and Sunday, February 22. Check out the Festival schedule and more info at this link:
https://watch.eventive.org/newjerseyfilmfestivalspring2026
View the winning films and digital videos of the International United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival, selected by a jury of filmmakers, Rutgers University student interns, and media professionals. The festival--now in its 38th year—will feature finalist works by independent filmmakers from the United States and around the world. Co-sponsored by Pro 8mm!
Saturday, February 21, 2026 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM!
2026 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Day 1 – Program 1
Les Amateurs – DT Kofoed (Lansing, Michigan) A super 8 murder debacle! 2025; 4 min.
Track – A. Rosalie Chandler (Brooklyn, New York, New York) Shot on black and white super 8 film in a stop motion fashion and layered digitally, "Track" is a ballet of lights. Chandler takes us on a trip around the Astoria Park jogging track at night in one of her signature Quicktrips. 2025; 4 min.
DuPhomf ‘s Passing – Alan Halls (Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom) Existential horror comes from outside and within for the drifter Jacques DuPhomf, lost in the vastness of the American West in this super 8mm tall tale. 2025; 4 min.
Not Alone – Momo Cao (Brooklyn, New York) Not Alone is an experimental 2D animated film about a cat that absorbs their twin sister during fetal development, a medical phenomenon known as chimerism. The story follows the cat’s battle with mental health and processing a vivid fantasy world. 2025; 4 min.
they are taking my house – Dan Lopez (Scranton, Pennsylvania) A woman finds herself trapped in an abyss, taunted by a malevolent telephone. 2025; 4 min.
The Empty Frame – Jeph Porter (Los Angeles, California) A young woman finds an old Polaroid camera in her new home only to have it reveal secrets about her future. Shot entirely on Super 8 film 2025; 5 min.
Kway La Soul: Poetry in Chicago – Joshua Boshell (Barrington Hills, Illinois) In his debut music video, Kway La Soul expresses his raw emotions about breaking into the music industry and his true feelings for the city he grew up in. 2025; 5 min.
Gilbert & George Daytripping Forever! – Iain B MacDonald (Los Angeles, California) Gilbert & George Daytripping Forever! follows the artists Gilbert and George as they embark on another adventure to Southend-on-Sea and explore the meaning of their art and their lives. 2025; 9 min.
Broken Token – Paul Rooney (Liverpool, United Kingdom) A single female voice sings a folk ballad, inspired by a song found in a Victorian song collector’s manuscript in a Plymouth, UK, museum archive. She sings of waiting, in her summer garden, for the return home of her love from the war. Accompanying the singing voice on two screens are Super 8mm shots of Plymouth summertime front garden gates, thresholds to the archetypal English plot, revealing through their repetition the quiet unpredictability of the ordinary. 2024; 12 min.
The Light of Eons – David O. Rogers In the future you never have to sleep. But a discovery at Jupiter makes Jeffery question his life. 2025; 15 min.
Speculations – Marco Mazzi (Florence, Italy) The images in this film are a visual essay on the concept of portrait: the portrait of a young woman and the portrait of a city. This film was shot on Super 8mm film in 2006 in Florence and Tokyo. The film was found and edited in 2024, and original music by Elisabetta Porcinai was added. 2025; 22 min.
Sunday, February 22, 2026 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM!
2026 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Day 2 – Program 1
Mixtape for Stom Sogo – Adrian Goycoolea (Brighton, United Kingdom) A Mixtape for Stom is an intimate documentary portrait of Japanese experimental filmmaker Stom Sogo (1975–2012), whose frenetic Super-8mm works became emblematic of New York’s underground cinema at the turn of the millennium. A close friend, filmmaker Adrian Goycoolea reflects on Sogo’s life and legacy, framing the film as a reply to the final email he received from him. In English, Japanese, subtitled. 2025; 103 min.
Sunday, February 22, 2026 – Online for 24 Hours!
2025 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Day 2 – Program 2
Annie, wake up – Laura Ivins (Bloomington, Indiana) Annie, wake up is a non-narrative, assemblage film that uses the device of a fictional protagonist, Annie, to reflect on feelings of home, both comforting and oppressive. The ten chapters explore meanings both domestic and communal. Home is a domicile, a community, a geography, and an ideology. The film collages heterogeneous media sources like 8mm home movies, stop motion, direct animation, and archival sound to construct layers of feeling within the frame and throughout the soundtrack. Annie, wake up creates a reflective space that is sometimes brooding, sometimes miraculous, perhaps both. 2025; 60 min.
The 38th annual United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival takes place on Saturday, February 21 and Sunday, February 22, 2026. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All of the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VOD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person when both are offered. The in-person screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM or 7PM on their show date. General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program.
