Join guest host Frank Uhle for a conversation with Danny Plotnick, author of Super 8: An Illustrated History (Rare Bird Books, 2020). Danny will be in town Saturday April 18 at the IFFY Film Festival to screen a retrospective of his films including the Youtube sensation Skate Witches, shot on the U-M Diag in 1985. As a special treat, all three of its stars will be at the screening! (though their pet rats, alas, are no longer with us)
We’ll talk about the primitive early days of the U-M film program, the rise and fall of Super 8, and the Smithsonian Institution’s acquisition of an original Skate Witches jacket. I hope you can join us!
