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 the School of Visual Arts. Sessions take place in the new, state-of-the-art cinema space at 333 W. 23rd Street: the SVA Theatre.
Register now. Seating is limited.
Theme: Moving Pictures Around the World
Following on the internationalism evident at the 2008 Orphan Film Symposium (at which participants came from 18 nations), 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 borders?
More than 70 presenters from more than 15 countries address film repatriation; mobility, distribution, and travel; regional and transnational cinemas; and neglected archival material that sheds light on international aspects of history and archiving. See new works by media artists, including the recipients of the 2010 Helen Hill Award.
Opening screening: Wednesday, 8:00 pm
Film ist. A Girl and a Gun (2009) with filmmaker Gustav Deutsch
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday start at 9:15 am
Final screening: Saturday 8:15 pm
scheduled highlights
▲ 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 presented by Paula Félix-Didier (Museo del Cine de Buenos Aires) and others
▲ Film Connection: repatriating American silent films from Australia, with Annette Melville (National Film Preservation Foundation), Meg Labrum (National Film and Sound Archive), Richard Abel, Erin Hanna, Nancy McVittie (Univ of Michigan), and Buckey Grimm
▲ Paolo Cherchi Usai (Haghefilm Foundation) The Politics of Film Repatriation
▲ A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha (1903), films and lanterns slide by Katherine Ertz and Charles Bowden, presented by Nancy Watrous (Chicago Film Archives)
▲ Martha Wallner (Xchange TV) on the Latin American Video Archive + the Nicaraguan quiz show Aquí en esta esquina (Sistema Sandinista de Televisión)
▲ Matthew Solomon (College of Staten Island, CUNY), the global circulation of Star-Films, 1896-2010, with a screening of Rip's Dream (1905, Georges Méliès)
▲ premiere of the restoration of The Cry of Jazz (1958), introduced by filmmaker Edward O. Bland, with Anna McCarthy (NYU) and Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern Univ)
▲ 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
▲ Norman McClaren's Hen Hop (1942, NFB Canada)
▲ an untitled film [aka The Janitor] (ca. 1930), the first preserved for the Kinsey Institute
▲ Stefan Drößler (Munich Filmmuseum) with Orson Welles Sketchbook (1955)
▲ Bill Brand (BB Optics), Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives), Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive), and Scott MacDonald (Hamilton College), on experimental restorations of films by Chick Strand, Ericka Beckman, et al.
▲ Fernando Peña (MALBA) on Afrodita (1928), a "French" film from Argentina
▲ Charles Musser (Yale Univ) showing The Investigators (1948, Union Films), script by Abel Meeropol, music by Serge Hovey
▲ early amateur films by women in Asia, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas:
≈ Kathy Dudding (New Zealand Film Archive) on the flâneuse in Aotearoa
≈ Melissa Dollman (Schlesinger Library/Radcliffe Institute) on Margaret Cook Thomson and China's Ginling College for Women
≈ Kimberly Tarr (Smithsonian Institution) on Northeast Historic Film's Adelaide Pearson Collection
≈ Mark G. Cooper (USC Moving Image Research Collections) Claudia Lea Phelps's 35mm amateur travel films
▲ Sergei Kapterev (Moscow Research Institute of Film Art) on rediscovered reels of Mikhail Kalatozov’s Their Kingdom (1928)
▲ The Augustas (1957-58), Scott Nixon's amateur film, introduced by Heidi Rae Cooley (USC)
▲ Another Pilgrim (1968) Elaine Summers's sponsored film for the World Council of Churches
♥ Susan Courtney & Laura Kissel (Univ of South Carolina) present the Helen Hill Award to
♥ ♥ Danielle Ash, Pickles for Nickels (2009)
♥ ♥ Jodie Mack,Yard Work Is Hard Work (2008)
▲ Nico de Klerk (Nederlands Filmmuseum/eye) and Julia Noordegraaf (Univ of Amsterdam) city promotion films
▲ the FilmStadt Wien project: Michael Loebenstein, Karin Fest (Austrian Film Museum), Michael Cowan (McGill Univ), with advertising films including Die Entdeckung Wiens am Nordpol [The Discovery of Vienna at the North Pole] (1923)
▲ Center for Home Movies preservations: Wallace Kelly's New York, Helen Hill's New Orleans
▲ Jiří Horníček (Národní Filmový Archiv) Czech amateur films Příběh vojáka (The Soldier's Story, 1934) and První hodiny okupace (The First Hours of Occupation, 1968)
▲ 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 ammunition smuggling docudrama
▲Thomas Elsaesser and Natalia Fidelholtz (Storycorps) showing home movies from Germany of the 1930s and 40s
▲ One Tenth of Our 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) with live music by T. Griffin (shinylittlerecords.com)
▲ Leah Kerr and Trisha Lendo (UCLA) the Mayme A. Clayon Library and Museum film collection, Kilroy Was Is Here (194?)
▲ restorations of 17.5mm films from Europe (Haghefilm, Nederlands Filmmuseum, & Martina Roepke, Utrecht Univ) and the U.S. (Colorlab and Michael Rothschild)
George Willeman (Library of Congress) some beautiful decaying nitrate
▲ Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) HD transfer of A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1905-06)
▲ Zhang Zhen (NYU) Hou Yao's A Poet from the Sea (1927), fragment preserved by the Cineteca di Bologna
▲ Bill Morrison with The Around the World Travel Diary of Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg and James H. Becker (1927) surveying Jewish refugee camps for the Joint Distribution Committee
▲ Spain Celebrates Her New Freedom (1931, Fox Movietone News) and unidentified footage of the aftermath of the Battle of Shanghai (1937-38), from USC Moving Image Research Collections
▲ and such truck.
Questions?
Dan.Streible@nyu.edu
