April 7-10, 2010
in New York City
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The Orphan Film Symposium marks its seventh biennial gathering of archivists, scholars, preservationists, curators, collectors, and media artists devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected moving images. For Orphans 7, NYU Cinema Studies partners with its neighbor, the School of Visual Arts in Chelsea. All sessions will take place in the new, state-of-the-art cinema space at 333 W. 23rd Street: the Visual Arts Theater.
Registration limited to 250 people.
Theme: Moving Pictures Around the World
Following on the internationalism evident at the 2008 Orphan Film Symposium (at which 18 nations were represented), Orphans 7 focuses on transnational and global issues. How have moving images circulated across national and other boundaries? How are neglected archival materials accessed and used across and within borders?
More than 50 presenters will address topics including: film repatriation; mobility and travel; regional and transnational cinemas; migration and global/local dynamics; heritage, cultural property, and developing nations; the work of international associations in media preservation and access; and the many forms of neglected archival material that shed light on global or transnational aspects of history and archiving. See and hear new works by media artists, including the recipient of the 2010 Helen Hill Award.
The full program will be posted here the first week of November 2009. Meanwhile . . .
scheduled highlights include
▲ APEX: NYU's two Audio-Visual Preservation Exchange projects, with newly preserved films from (1) Ghana (Dept of Information Services), presented by Mona Jimenez, Jennifer Blaylock, & Manthia Diawara and from (2) Argentina (Museo del Cine de Buenos Aires)
▲ Film Connection: repatriating American silent films from Australia, with Annette Melville (National Film Preservation Foundation), Meg Labrum (National Film and Sound Archive), Richard Abel (Univ of Michigan), and Buckey Grimm
▲ Paolo Cherchi Usai (Haghefilm Foundation) the history of film repatriation
▲ premiere of the restoration of The Cry of Jazz (1958), introduced by filmmaker Edward Bland, Anna McCarthy (NYU), and Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern University)
▲ NYU Tamiment Library's rediscovery of With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1938), the first film by Henri Cartier-Bresson[!], introduced by Juan Salas and Alice Moscoso
▲ Vanessa Toulmin (Univ of Sheffield) Edison films, 1894-95, repatriated from the UK
▲The Florestine Collection (2010), a film by Helen Hill completed by Paul Gailiunas
▲ Film ist. A Girl and a Gun (2009) Gustav Deutsch & Hanna Schimek, Vienna
▲ Stefan Drößler (Munich Filmmuseum) with Orson Welles Sketchbook (1955)
▲ Bill Brand (BB Optics), Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives), and Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive) on experimental restorations
▲ Fernando Peña (MALBA) on Afrodita (1928), a "French" film from Argentina
▲ early amateur films by women in New Zealand/ Aotearoa, India, China, Egypt, Algeria, Japan, the Philippines Kathy Dudding (New Zealand Film Archive), Kimberly Tarr (Smithsonian Institution), et al.
▲ Sergei Kapterev (Moscow Research Institute of Film Art) on rediscovered reels of Mikhail Kalatozov’s Their Kingdom (1928)
▲ Mark G. Cooper & Mike Mashon with new Fox Movietone newsreel preservation from the Univ of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections & the Library of Congress
▲ The Augustas (1957-58), Scott Nixon's amateur film, introduced by Heidi Rae Cooley (USC)
▲ Another Pilgrim (1968) Elaine Summer's sponsored film for the World Council of Churches
▲ El Colégio Nacional de Buenos Aires (1923) by Pablo Ducrós, introduced by Paula Felix-Didier
▲ Nico de Klerk (Nederlands Filmmuseum) and Julia Noordegraaf (Univ of Amsterdam) city promotion films
▲ Center for Home Movies preservations: Wallace Kelly's New York, Helen Hill's New Orleans
▲ Jiří Horníček (Národní Filmový Archiv) the Czech amateur film The Soldier's Story (1938)
▲ Marsha & Devin Orgeron (Prague Institute, NCSU) with the Czech driver's safety film Nevíme dne [We Don’t Know When . . .] (1946)
▲ Terri Francis (Yale Univ) the Jamaica Film Unit's Parables, 1951-1957
▲ Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Edison, 1909), piano accompaniment by Dennis James
▲ Scott Simmon (UC Davis) & Marty Marks (MIT) with a 1914 Texas-Mexico border docudrama
▲Thomas Elsaesser and Natalia Fidelholtz (Cinema Tropical) showing home movies from Germany of the 1930s and 40s
▲ One Tenth of a Nation (1940) introduced by Carol Radovich (Rockefeller Archive Center), Julie Hubbert and Craig Kridel (Univ of South Carolina)
▲ filmmaker Esther B. Robinson presents newly-preserved films by Danny Williams, 1965-66 and Andy Warhol's Uptight #3 -- David Susskind (1966)
▲ restorations of 17.5mm films from Europe (Haghefilm, Nederlands Filmmuseum, & Martina Roepke, Utrecht Univ) and the U.S. (Colorlab and Michael Rothschild)
▲ filmmaker Bill Morrison & George Willeman (Library of Congress) present beautiful decaying nitrate
▲ Susan Courtney & Laura Kissel (Univ of South Carolina) present the Helen Hill Award
▲ Zhang Zhen (NYU) Hou Yao's A Poet from the Sea (1927), fragment preserved by the Cineteca di Bologna
▲ and more . . .
Questions?
Dan.Streible@NYU.edu
NB: The symposium was previously scheduled to take place at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, in Culpeper, Virginia. However, due to uncertainty about the completion of technical upgrades to its theater, the Library is unable to host. The LOC staff will provide films and other logistical support to the 2010 event, and looks forward to future collaborations.
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