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archivists, academics, & artists saving, studying, & screening neglected moving images
Aug 20, 2009
Sept 16 films at SVA Theater grand opening
Here's the word from the SVA
Aug 17, 2009
Inside the Visual Arts Theater
Here's a sneak peek at the SVA Theater (formerly the Chelsea West cinema and originally the RKO 23rd Street theater). Photos courtesy of Gene Stavis.
Inside the
There's actually a "wet bar" in the lobby.
The SVA Theater lobby as seen from behind the bar.
from maps.google.com
A not-too-old image of 333 W. 23rd Street, when it was still the Chelsea West Clearview Cinema. The facade is being completely made over. The apartment towers in the background and the green space to the right are part of Penn South, a progressive, nonprofit housing cooperative.
(Screen shot taken from Google maps, street view.)
The site Cinema Treasures chronicles the theater's history. Turns out that the Clearview ceased operations there a month before the 2008 Orphan Film Symposium, the SVA Theater held its first screening four days after Orphans '08.
Aug 16, 2009
New York readopts
It's true. The 7th Orphan Film Symposium (April 7-10, 2010) will not be in fair Culpeper, Virginia, as originally announced. New York City is taking the baby back. It's an NYU production, but we will be using the School of Visual Arts Theater.
The Orphan Film Symposium marks its seventh biennial gathering of archivists, scholars, curators, collectors, and media artists devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected moving images. NYU Cinema Studies is pleased to partner with the School of Visual Arts in Chelsea. All
sessions will take place in its new, state-of-the-art cinema space at 333 W. 23rd Street: the Visual Arts Theater.
Registration is limited to 280 seats.
30 hours of programming in 4 nights and 3 days
40 speakers and presenters
THEME of Orphans 7:
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 40 presenters will address topics including: film repatriation; mobility and travel; regional and transnational cinemas
; issues of migration and global/local dynamics; heritage, cultural property, and developing nations; the World-Wide Web as de facto archive; the work of international associations in media preservation and access; and the many forms of neglected archival material that shed light on globalism or the transnational aspects of history and archiving. See and hear new works by media artists, including the recipient of the 2010 Helen Hill Award, given to innovative, independent filmmakers.
Proposals are still being accepted, though much of the content is already selected. The program will be posted here by October 1.
scheduled highlights
• ▲ NYU's two Audio-Visual Preservation Exchange projects, with newly preserved films from Ghana's Dept of Information Services and from the Museo del Cine de Buenos Aires
• ▲ Paolo Cherchi Usai (Haghefilm Foundation) the history of film repatriation
Questions? Dan.Streible@NYU.edu
Aug 15, 2009
Orphans in Chelsea
Here's part of the exterior, with kinetic sculpture, designed by Milton Glaser.
Officially opening on September 16, the former Chelsea West cinema has two auditoriums. The Orphan Film Symposium will be in the 280-seater, replete with 35/16mm variable speed projection and digital projection. Installation by James Bond, Full Aperture Systems.
Thanks to film historian Gene Stavis, Director of the SVA Theater (and former American rep of Henri Langlois!), Orphans 7 has found a swell home for 2010.