Past Season

Supe- 8 Mom
(DOCUMENTARY, 4 minutes, 51 seconds)

Super-8 Mom looks through the eyes of a mother’s 1960s camerawork to store her thoughts and feelings for posterity. Shot on the Outer Banks during beachfront vacations of decades past, the resulting footage acts as a memorable reflection on the complexities of family and a son’s stirring tribute to his mother—past and present.

Filmmaker Profile: David Ellsworth

David Ellsworth worked in video post-production at Broadway Video in New York, NY, for 10 years. Since then he has made award-winning short films that have appeared at festivals in the United States (Ann Arbor Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Black Maria Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Florida Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Festival, Hi Mom! Festival, James River Festival of the Moving Image, Louisville Film Festival, NextFrame Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival and the U.S. Super8 Film & Video Festival), Canada (Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film and Video; Toronto Super-8 Film Festival), Cuba (Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano), Italy (OLTRE I MEDIA, Architecture in Video Festival), France (Annexia Festival; Cinémathèque Français), and Korea (Korean International Experimental Film Festival). Mary Ellsworth, David’s Super-8 Mom, lives in Cullowhee, NC.

• David Ellsworth attended graduate school at Appalachian State University from 1994-1996.
• Ellsworth has screened previous works at the Flicker film festival in Chapel Hill, NC.
• Super-8 Mom screened at Full Frame and Hi Mom festivals this year.
• Ellsworth’s mother and sister both live in Cullowhee and their family has vacationed at the Outer Banks for many years (as witnessed in Super-8 Mom).