Here's the penultimate draft of the program for Orphans 9, The Future of Obsolescence, at EYE in Amsterdam, March 30 - April 2, 2014. It's a co-production between EYE and New York University (specifically NYU Tisch School of the Arts and its Department of Cinema Studies).
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Sunday, 30 March an Evening Film Concert
Greetings: Sandra den Hamer and Giovanna Fossati (EYE), Marijke de Valck (UvA), and Dan Streible (NYU)
Simona Monizza (EYE) abstract animated films by Maarten Visser, accompanist Marcel Worms (with additional music by NYU Film Scoring students)
Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (EYE) introduces the premiere of the new restoration East Is West (1922) accompanist Stephen Horne
Monday, 31 March
9:45 am Orphans Orientation
Josephine Baker Visit Volendam (Fox Movietone, 1928)
About the Orphan Film Symposium Dan Streible
About the Future of Obsolescence Giovanna Fossati
Dan Streible A New Look at an Old Sneeze: Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (W. K. L. Dickson, 1894)
10:45am Thomas Elsaesser (UvA) On Obsolescence
11:15am break
11:30 am Transmitting Archival Knowledge
Giovanna Fossati (EYE / UvA) Restoring the Colors of Early Cinema
Julia Noordegraaf (UvA) & Simona Monizza (EYE) Hacking the Bart Vegter Collection
Eef Masson (UvA) moderates a roundtable with Howard Besser and Bill Brand (NYU MIAP), Snowden Becker (UCLA MIAS), and Martin Koerber (DIF)
1 pm LUNCH provided
2pm Media Archaeology
Susan Aasman (U of Groningen) Staging the Amateur Dispositif, a performance with Andreas Fickers (U of Luxembourg), Tom Slootweg (U of Groningen), Tim van der Heijden and Jo Wachelder (U of Maastricht)
Alexandra Schneider and Wanda Strauven (UvA) Children as Media Archaeologists
Monika Supruniuk (Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw) Kazimierz Prószyński and OKO: The first Polish amateur movie camera (1914)
3:45pm BREAK
4:15pm Reassemblage
Matt Soar (Concordia U, Montreal) Lost Leaders Project
Benedict Olgado (NFA Philippines) & Bill Brand (BB Optics) Restoring the Fragments of On My Way to India Consciousness, I Reached China (Henry Francia, 1968)
Walter Forsberg & John Klacsmann (Anthology Film Archives) Technicolor NG (16mm print, 20’)
6:15 pm DINNER provided
8:15 pm Helen Hill Award screening
Bill Morrison premieres a new work
Doug Goodwin (Cal Arts) On Illusion, Magic, and Ted Serios
+ a preview of Serios (Rebecca Baron, 2014)
Becky Lewis (Columbia, South Carolina) confers the Helen Hill Award on Werner Nekes
Start (Nekes, 1966) newly restored by Deutsche Kinemathek with EYE
Franziska Latell (Berlin U of the Arts) introduces Werner Nekes
Werner Nekes talk/presentation on his collection of optical devices
Tuesday, 1 April
9:45 am introductory remarks & trailer
10am New Research Networks for Obsolete Media
Mark G. Cooper (U of South Carolina) Metadata and the Future of the Humanities
Karen Cariani (WGBH Archive) Working with Scholars to Improve Access to Media Archives
Mark J. Williams (Dartmouth College) The Media Ecology Project: More and Better Scholarly Access to Historical Media
Scott Curtis (Northwestern U in Qatar) chair
11:30am BREAK
11:45am Digital Decay and Remobilization
Egyptian (Whirling Dervishes) Dancers (Fox Movietone News, 1928)
Evan Meaney (U of South Carolina) de_ca/sia.py: Archival Encryption, Encoding, and Error as Narrative
Heidi Rae Cooley (U of South Carolina) Finding Augusta in a Digital World: The App.
The Other Augustas (Scott Nixon, 195?) and [Augusta, Sicily] (19??)
LUNCH provided
2pm When Workers Leave the Factory: Amateur Films in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s
Chris Wahl (HFF Potsdam) work from Betriebsfilmstudio GDR
Stadt des Morgen / City of Tomorrow (EKO Eisenhüttenstadt, 1965)
Der Minister kommt / The Minister Comes (Frank Dietrich, Amateur Film Studio Senftenberg, 1984)
FKK – Mahlzeit / Nudism – Enjoy Your Meal, (EKO Eisenhüttenstadt, 1973)
Ralf Forster (Filmmuseum Potsdam) East German amateur films
Milchig-Trübe / Milky Fishy (Amateur Film Studio, Potsdam, 1983)
Der Favorit / The Favorite, (Angelika and Horst Butter, Berlin, 1982)
Sonntagsfahrer / Sunday Driver (Amateur Film Studio STATIV Dresden, 1981)
Jiří Horníček (Czech National Film Archive) Czech amateur auteurs
Mašinerie / Machinery (Pavel Bárta and Zdeněk Lorenz, 1985)
X + Y (TIGR (Koplík-Groz-Tichý, 1963)Maria Vinogradova (NYU) Amateur film in the Soviet Union
Na odnoi zemle / On the Same Earth (People’s Film Studio at DK Proftekhobrazovania, Leningrad, 1976)
3:30pm BREAK
4pm Transportation Technologies
May Haduong (Academy Film Archive) Aloha Wanderwell: Car and Camera Around the World, 1922-1950
Yvonne Zimmermann (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Hans Richter’s Die Eroberung des Himmels (Conquest of the Sky) (1938)
Reto Kromer (reto.ch) In-flight Entertainment: Kodak two-audio track film prints for airlines; and Apollo 11 test film for Kern lenses (1969)
Paul Spehr (The Man Who Made Movies: W.K.L. Dickson) & Mark-Paul Meyer (EYE) Mutoscope and Biograph 68mm films (1897-1902)
6pm "dinner on your own"
8pm Silent Night
Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (EYE) and Jeff Lambert (NFPF) with film repatriation news
Ned Thanhouser introduces the newly preserved Clarence Cheats at Croquet (Thanhouser, 1915)
Ron Magliozzi & Peter Williamson (Museum of Modern Art, New York) present rediscovered rushes from the unreleased Darktown Troubles (Biograph, ca. 1914) music by Stephen Horne
Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago) segues to the newly restored A Frontier Post (Fox, US, 1925) 12’ A day-in-the-life documentary about the “buffalo soldiers” of the U.S. Army’s 10th Cavalry, Fort Huachuca, Arizona. 35mm from Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina
Wednesday, 2 April
9:45am introductory remarks and short video TBA
10am Detritus
Antonia Lant (NYU) on Teclópolis (2009, Can Can Club, Argentina)
Charles Musser (Yale U) on Industry’s Disinherited (Unions Films, 1949)
Grover Crisp (Sony Pictures Entertainment) How Death of a Salesman (1951) Became an Orphan Work
+ the never-released Career of a Salesman (Columbia Pictures, 1951)
FORWARD: The EU Directive for a Registry of Audiovisual Orphan Works
Nicola Mazzanti (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique) introduction
Géraldine Vooren (EYE)
Thomas Christensen (Danish Film Institute)
Q&A
Howard Besser (NYU) moderator
Thomas Christensen (Danish Film Institute)
Q&A
Howard Besser (NYU) moderator
11:45am break
12:00 Restorations
Rob Byrne (SFSFF) Restoring The Last Edition (1925)
Martin Koerber (Deutsche Kinemathek) and Andrea Krämer (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin) Digital Restoration of 1930s Gasparcolor Films
with Gasparcolor screenings
1:15 pm LUNCH
2:15pm Latin American Archives
Juana Suárez (Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano) Outtakes from Gloria Triana’s Yuruparí (FOCINE-Audiovisuales, 1983-86) documenting Colombia’s Afrodescendant and indigenous cultures
Andrés Levinson & Paula Félix-Didier (Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires)
Caperucita Roja (Little Red Riding Hood, Jorge Mendez Delfino, 1933)
Caperucita Roja Inesita (Inés Mendez Delfino, 1960)
Perros en paracaidas (Dogs Parachute into Antarctica, 1963)
4:15pm break
4:45pm Eastern European Archives
Elvira Diamanti, Eriona Vyshka, & Andi Lubonja (Albanian Film Archive) with Thomas Logoreci (Marubi Academy of Film) The Albanian Cinema Project
KF-16 [Albanian dances] (Ramazan Bogdani, 1972)
+ excerpts from new restorations, including Nëntori i dytë (The Second November) (1982) and Tomka and His Friends (1977)
Elżbieta Wysocka (Filmoteka Narodowa) Man without a Movie Camera: Restoring the Cameraless Films of Julian Józef Antonisz
• Ostry film “zaangażowany”: non camera (A Hard-Core Engaged Film. Non-Camera, 1979)
• Światło w tunelu (A Light in the Tunnel, 1985)
• Polska Kronika Non Camerowa nr.-1 (The Polish Non-Camera Newsreel no. 1, 1981)
6:30 pm DINNER provided
8:30 pm American Independents
Jeff Lambert (NFPF) introduces the launch of the DVD set Treasures 6: Next Wave Avant-garde, and a 35mm screening of Chicago Loop (James Benning, 1976) 9’; restoration by Academy Film Archive and Austrian Film Museum
Jeff Lambert (NFPF) introduces the launch of the DVD set Treasures 6: Next Wave Avant-garde, and a 35mm screening of Chicago Loop (James Benning, 1976) 9’; restoration by Academy Film Archive and Austrian Film Museum
Frank Scheffer and Paul Cohen introduce the premiere of their new work Zoetrope People (1980/2014)
Dennis Doros (Milestone Films) and Mary Huelsbeck (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research) The ‘Lost’ Films of Shirley Clarke
