Filmmaker J.C. Reifenberg has released a three-minute short film which follows the exploits of a small boy playing with his Star Wars toys and an old 8mm camera.
His film, Summer ’78, sees a young protagonist messing around in the front garden, making his own Star Wars movie with the help of a few pots and pans, cardboard boxes, tinfoil and sticky tape.
As the kid’s visions unfold before us we see the Millennium Falcon committing a daring rescue, asteroids crashing into a city and an X-wing defeating a giant dinosaur.
The boy uses ingenious methods of improvisation to help make his special effects, even utilizing his bicycle wheel and some cardboard to create a moving space backdrop.
The film has everything a young Star Wars fan might want in a movie – lightsaber battles, exploding asteroids… Read the full story