Followed by another breakthrough - our first feature-length
movie in Super8, the UK premiere of Love Suicides by New York-based
director David Teague. This highly-stylised 73 minute film was shot over
two years on Kodak monochrome stocks, using found and improvised
locations in Brooklyn to create medieval Japan, and came in at $20,000
(raised in donations of fifty dollars for an executive producer credit),
"most of it on food" commented the director, and consumed 110 cartridges
of film.
'Love Suicides' Trailer
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A lively Q&A session followed with David, accompanied by two of
the crew, which resumed until closing time at the nearby bar. And still
only halfway through...
