Excavating the Archive:  A Documentary History of the Sydney Super 8 Film Group: 1982-1989 by Robert Percival The Sydney Super 8 Film Group’s bohemian affair with bureaucracy: an age of magnificent obsessions and its subsequent liberation of social memory

Introduction Chapter One: Launching towards a history - the Sydney scene Chapter Two: The Super Collective and the rise of Super 8 Chapter Three: Beyond Alphaville, the Super 8 Film Group works towards its first Festival Chapter Four: The Futur*fall conference and the institutional rise of post-modernity Chapter Five: The bohemian affair continues – with more strings attached Chapter Six: Beachcombers following the sun in a sky crowded with stars Chapter Seven: Who killed the Super 8 star – the rise of Video 8 Chapter Eight: Incorporation, the scattering of the infamous six, and the new direction Chapter Nine: Beyond melancholia and nostalgia – the new 'Group’ develops Attitude! Chapter Ten: The Super 8 phenomenon turns uneventful Conclusion Bibliography   The Interviews Mark Titmarsh: From Super to Deluxe The Articles Kate Richards, ‘Some comments on two Super 8 film festivals’, in Filmnews, Nov/Dec 1981 Adrian Martin, 'What is this thing called ‘The Super-8 Phenomenon?'" in Filmnews, July 1982 Ross Gibson, ' ... seen as a child's toy, but ... ' Filmnews, July 1982 Gabrielle Finnane and Jenny McAmley, “All things have their measure – 8mm film at NFTA”  in Filmnews, August 1982 The Letters Letter to Australian Film Commission from The Sydney Super-8 Collective, 8 June 1982