Sunday, March 30
6:30pm An Eye Opening Reception / Borrel
8:00pm An Evening Film Concert
• Greetings from Sandra den Hamer & Giovanna Fossati (EYE), Marijke de Valck (UvA), & Dan Streible (NYU)
• experimental film curator Simona Monizza introduces animated abstract films by Maarten Visser, with new music performed by composer Marcel Worms. Also premiering: commissioned scores by Ron Sadoff's NYU Film Scoring Program students Erica Jung, Aaron Kenny, Massimo Sammi, and Joseph Twist.
• silent film curator Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi presents the world premiere of EYE’s restoration of the feature film East Is West (1922), starring Constance Talmadge. Musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne.
_______________________
Monday, March 31
9:45am Orphans Orientation on Obsolescence
Outtakes of Josephine Baker Visit Volendam (Fox Movietone, 1928)
• Giovanna Fossati Why the Future of Obsolescence?
• Dan Streible (NYU) A New Look at an Old Sneeze: Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (W. K. L. Dickson, 1894)
• Thomas Elsaesser (UvA) On Obsolescence
11:30am 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 the speakers + Bill Brand (NYU MIAP), Snowden Becker (UCLA MIAS), & Martin Koerber (Deutsche Kinemathek)
LUNCH
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 & Jo Wachelder (U of Maastricht)
• Monika Supruniuk (Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw) Kazimierz Prószyński and OKO: The first Polish amateur movie camera (1914)
• Alexandra Schneider (UvA) Children as Media Archaeologists
4:15pm Reassemblage
• Matt Soar (Concordia U, Montreal) The Lost Leaders Project
• Benedict Salazar Olgado (National Film Archives of the Philippines) & Bill Brand (BB Optics) Restoring the Fragments of On the Way to India Consciousness, I Reached China (Henry Francia, 1968)
• Walter Forsberg & John Klacsmann (Anthology Film Archives) Technicolor NG (1967)
DINNER
8:15pm The Helen Hill Award for Innovative Independent Filmmaking
• Bill Morrison premieres La Trochita (Narrow Gauge) (2014)
• Doug Goodwin (Cal Arts) On Illusion, Magic, and Detour de Force (Rebecca Baron, 2014)
• Becky Lewis (Columbia, South Carolina) and filmmaker Jodie Mack present the Helen Hill Award and Kodak prize to Werner Nekes
• Start (Nekes, 1966) restored by Deutsche Kinemathek & EYE
• Franziska Latell (Berlin U of the Arts) On Werner Nekes: Filmmaker and Collector
• awardee Werner Nekes talks about Start + demonstrates his collection of optical devices
____________________________
Tuesday, April 1
9:45am Remarks (and Movies) for the Good of the Order
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) moderator
11:45am Digital Decay and Remobilization
• Bill Morrison introduces 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. + Scott Nixon films [The Other Augustas] (195?)
LUNCH
2pm When Workers Leave the Factory: Amateur Films in the Eastern Bloc
• Chris Wahl (HFF Potsdam) "Grad the Camera, Pal!" The Film Studio of Ironworks Combine Eisenhüttenstadt
• Ralf Forster (Filmmuseum Potsdam)Useful Humor and Releasing Laughter: Satirical Shorts in Amateur Cinema of the GDR
• Jiří Horníček (Czech National Film Archive) Against the War and Totalitarian Power: Two Examples of Socio-Political Reflection in Amateur Animated Films
• Maria Vinogradova (NYU) “Soviet Amateurs Are So Serious”
• Katerina Loukopoulou (Panteion U, Athens) moderator
4pm Transportation Technologies
• May Haduong (Academy Film Archive) Aloha Wanderwell: To See the World by Car (1935-37)
• 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
• Paul Spehr & Mark-Paul Meyer (EYE) Mutoscope and Biograph 68mm films (1897-1902)
8pm Silent Night with music by Stephen Horne
• Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi & Jeff Lambert (NFPF) Repatriation Report
• Ned Thanhouser introduces 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), starring Bert Williams
• Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago) a segue to A Frontier Post (Fox Varieties, 1925)
______________________
Tuesday, April 2
9:45am Gregorio Rocha (Archivia Films) A Note about the Mexican Revolution
10am Detritus
• Antonia Lant (NYU) on Teclópolis (Can Can Club, 2009)
• 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), Géraldine Vooren (EYE legal counsel), & Thomas Christensen (ACE / Danish Film Institute), Howard Besser (NYU)
12:00pm Restorations
• Rob Byrne (San Francisco Silent Film Festival) Not Gone but Definitely Forgotten: Resurrecting The Last Edition (1925)
• Martin Koerber (Deutsche Kinemathek) & Andrea Krämer (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin) Digital Restoration of 1930s Gasparcolor Films
• Gary Rhodes (Queen's U Belfast)
LUNCH
2:15pm Archivos de América Latina
• Juana Suárez (Proimágenes Colombia / Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano) Outtakes from Gloria Triana’s Yuruparí (FOCINE-Audiovisuales, 1983-86) documenting Colombia’s Afrodescendant and indigenous cultures
• Paula Félix-Didier & Andrés Levinson (Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires) Cine Amateur Argentina
* Caperucita Roja (Little Red Riding Hood, Jorge Mendez Delfino, 1933)
* Caperucita Roja Inesita (Inés Mendez Delfino, 1960)
* Perros en paracaidas [Dogs in Parachutes (in Antarctica!)] (Gustavo Giró, 1963)
• Mona Jimenez (NYU MIAP APEX) moderator, with Pamela Vizner Oyarce
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: Preserving and Restoring Albania's Cold War Era Cinema (1944-1991)
• Elżbieta Wysocka (Filmoteka Narodowa) Restoring the Non-camera Movies and Techniques of Antonisz
DINNER
8:30pm American Independents
• May Haduong (Academy Film Archive) introduces Autumn Spectrum (Hy Hirsh, 1957)
• Jeff Lambert (NFPF) with Chicago Loop (James Benning, 1976) restoration by Academy Film Archive and Austrian Film Museum
• Frank Scheffer & Paul Cohen introduce their new work Zoetrope People (1980/2014)
• Dennis Doros (Milestone Films) & Mary Huelsbeck (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research) Project Shirley: A Joint Rediscovery of Shirley Clarke
