Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Image
a film symposium
at Indiana University Bloomington
presented by Indiana University Cinema, IU Libraries Film Archive,
and NYU Cinema Studies/Tisch School of the Arts
Thursday,
Sept. 26
6:30pm
Opening Reception IU Auditorium
Remarks by IU Cinema Director Jon Vickers, with Dean of University Libraries Brenda L. Johnson, and
IU President Michael A. McRobbie
8:30pm Films for Cello in the Indiana University Cinema
Four works presented
by filmmaker Bill Morrison
with live
performance by Opus 3 artist and cello virtuoso Maya
Beiser
Light Is
Calling (2004) music by
Michael Gordon
Cello
Counterpoint (2005) music by
Steve Reich
Just Ancient
Loops (2012) music by
Michael Harrison
All
Vows (world premiere) music by
Michael Gordon
Indiana
University Cinema and the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program
commissioned Bill Morrison’s All Vows.
The project is supported by Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts
& Humanities Institute.
Friday, Sept. 27 in the Indiana University
Cinema
9:00am
Welcome
Orphans Midwest trailer
(Russell Sheaffer, 2013)
Rachael Stoeltje (IU
Libraries Film Archive), Jon Vickers (IU Cinema), Dan
Streible (NYU Orphan Film Symposium)
9:15am Keynote by Tom Gunning (U of
Chicago)
10:00am
Silent-Era Films
chair: Dan Streible
Mike Mashon (Library of Congress) Paper Prints in the
DataCine Era
Dan Streible (NYU) Versions of “Films”: Kinetoscopic and
Digital
Heddi Vaughan
Siebel (media artist) Anthony Fiala’s Arctic Expedition Films, 1901-1905
+ A
Dash to the North Pole (Charles Urban, 1909) 35mm, BFI
National Archive
Greg Wilsbacher (U of South Carolina) The Fox Varieties
Series: Frogland (192?) and the
Unreleased A Frontier Post (1925)
11:45am
Media Migration chair: Jeff Martin (Independent Media
Arts Preservation)
Mike Casey (IU
Media Preservation Services) The Media Preservation Initiative
Stefan Elnabli (Northwestern
Library) The
Wildcats 16mm Football Film Collection (1929-89): Digitization and Access
Mona Jimenez (NYU)
Early
Video Processing Tools: Art & Technology
2:30pm Educational
Films and University Distribution chair: Rachael Stoeltje
Alex Kupfer (NYU) University
Extension Programs and Nontheatrical Film Distribution
Natasha Ritsma (Kenyon College) History of the
IU Audio-Visual Center
Amy Beste (School of the
Art Institute of Chicago) Encyclopedia Britannica Films: The Living City (1953)
Marsha Gordon (NC
State U) & Allyson Nadia Field (UCLA)
On Felicia (Alan Gorg, Bob Dickson, and Trevor
Greenwood, ca. 1965)
4:30pm Indiana – Working for a Living chair: Greg Waller
Donald Crafton (U of Notre Dame) and Andrew Beckman (Studebaker National Museum) Partnership of Faith (Studebaker Corp., 1949)
Gregory A. Waller (IU) an amateur film of farm and apple orchard in Hickory Hill, Indiana (ca. 1930) musical accompaniment by Jason Fickel
James Paasche (IU) Transportation
Underground: The Story of a Pipeline (Robert Young, for Indiana Farm
Bureau Co-Op Association, 1953)
8:30pm
Portmanteau: 35mm, 16mm, HD, and ¼” Magnetic Audio
Tape
Kit Hughes (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater
Research) trailers from the Emile de Antonio
Collection, including Millhouse: A White
Comedy (1971) and the German-language version of Point of Order (1963).
Greg Wilsbacher introduces the premiere of the 35mm restoration of A Frontier Post (Fox, 1925), musical accompaniment by Gabriel Gutierrez Arellano
Jennifer
Reeves introduces her hand-painted 16mm film Landfill 16 (2011)
Albert
Steg (Center for Home Movies) introduces Suitcase of Love and Shame
(Jane Gillooly, 2013) and the suitcase of tapes he discovered
Q&A with filmmaker and
Guggenheim Fellow Jane Gillooly (School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
11:59pm Midnight Show: The Orgy at Lil’s Place (Jerald Intrator, 1963) 77’
introduced by Eric Schaefer (Emerson College)
+ a trailer for Fleshpot on 42nd Street (Andy Milligan,
1972)
Saturday, Sept. 28
9:00am
Outtakes from . . . chair:
Noelle Griffis
Noelle Griffis (IU) the Peter Bogdanovich
Collection
Nadia Ghasedi (Washington U) Eyes on the Prize, Henry Hampton
Collection
Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin Films) The Interrupters (2011) and other Kartemquin
Films
Ken Eisenstein (Bucknell U) Dream, from Hollis Frampton’s Magellan
cycle
11:00am
Off
the Rails: Hell Bound Train chair:
Brian Graney
Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago) Early Black Film Artifacts as
Material Evidence
S. Torriano
Berry (Howard U) Reconstructing/Resurrecting the Eloyce Gist Collection Film
Fragments at the Library of Congress: Hell
Bound Train (1929-30) and Verdict Not Guilty (1930-33)
Brian Graney (IU Black Film Center/Archive) Hell Bound Train: Tracking Preservation
and Scholarship
2:00pm
Kinsey Institute Film Archive chair: Russell Sheaffer (IU)
Liana Zhou (Kinsey Institute)
the challenges of working with stag films
Joseph Slade (Ohio U) Stag Film Audiences and
Strictly Union (1919),
film transfer courtesy of Pro8mm
Eric Schaefer (Emerson College) William Mishkin
and The Orgy at Lil’s Place (1963)
3:45pm
Recontextualizing Bits and Pieces chair: Dan Streible
Greg Wilsbacher on Indiana University Graduation (Fox Movietone News, 1929)
Craig Kridel (U of South Carolina Museum of Education) Alice
Keliher and the Human Relations
Film Series (1937-1942)
Screening: a
rare archival16mm print from the HR series:
Fury (lynching) (Human Relations Commission,
1939)
edited by
Helen van Dongen
from Fritz
Lang's Fury (MGM, 1936)
Andy Uhrich (IU) The Film
Group of Chicago: Advertising Films and Verité Documentary
5:30pm Closing
Thoughts
6pm reception
+ dinner, IU Art Museum
featuring Skip’s 16mm Silent
Science Screening projected by Skip Elsheimer (A/V
Geeks)
8:30pm Finale: Music in Orphan Films in the Indiana University Cinema
Curated by Kelli Hix (singer/songwriter,
musician, and Curator of Moving Images at the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum)
Anne Wells (Chicago
Film Archives) Park Band (Hedman-Gray, Inc., ca. 1965) and “Close to
You” by The Carpenters (David Strutzel, 1971)
Andrea J. Kelley (IU) Hong
Kong Blues (Hoagy Carmichael, 1941) IU Archives of Traditional Music, 1941
Kelli Hix introduces
Kincaid, on Makin’ Music (WBIR-TV, Knoxville, 1983) from Tennessee Archive of the
Moving Image
and a home movie of Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, Hank
Williams, Jr., and other country music stars in Anderson, Indiana (1971)
Lylas (Nashville,
TN) providing musical accompaniment for Blanche’s Recital (Arthur H.
Smith, 1977), presented by Andy Uhrich (Center for Home Movies)
Caroline Rubens (Appalshop) George
Thompson: Street Cleaner (Mountain Community Television, Norton, Virginia, 1977)
Liz Coffey (Harvard
Film Archive) Honky Tonk Bud (Scott Laster, 1986)
Asia Harman (IU
Libraries Film Archive) Hoosier Promenade (Janet R. MacLean, IU
Audio-Visual Center, 1957)
Jake Austen (Roctober
Productions) Chic-A-Go-Go highlights (Chicago Access Network Television,
1996-2013)
Garden Gates (Bloomington,
IN) performing live to the oceanographic films Sea Creatures (1974) and Challenge
of the Oceans (1960), edited by Josephine McRobbie (IU)
Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin
Films) Anonymous Artists of America (Gordon Quinn and Jerry Temaner,
1970)
Sara Chapman (Media Burn
Independent Video Archive) Cheat-U-Fair (Columbia College Visual
Production Seminar: Carl German, Thomas Phillips, Bruce Real, Scott Rosenthal,
Marsha Rudak, Bob Schordje, and Al Stoncius; instructor Jim Passin, 1980)
Greg Pierce (The Orgone
Archive) Sonambients: The Sound Sculpture of Harry Bertoia (Jeffrey
Eger, 1971)
Kelli Hix home movie
of Hank Williams III (PSU Film and Video, 2011)