He kindly gave permission to post the audio recording of his presenaton here. 32 minutes.
Thomas Elsaesser <www.thomas-elsaesser.com> is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Media and Culture of the University of Amsterdam, and since 2013 Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He has authored, edited, and co-edited some twenty volumes on early cinema, film theory, German and European cinema, Hollywood, new media, and installation art. Among his recent books are Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (with Malte Hagener, 2010), The Persistence of Hollywood (2012), German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory since 1945 (2013), as well as Film History as Media Archaeology (2016).
In 2005 he founded UvA’s master’s program in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. The P&P Program, now an M.A. diploma in Heritage Studies, which co-hosted Orphans 9.
Professor E's estimable career is well detailed in Wikipedia's biographical entry.
Postscript:
Two weeks after this talk, we invited Thomas to the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program's 10th anniversary celebration in New York. Here is his gracious email reply.
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From: Thomas Elsaesser
Date: Apr 16, 2014
Dear Dan,
Thank you for your message, kind words and invitation. Alas: your cocktail time will see me on my way to JFK, where I board my plane back to Amsterdam (yet again).
Wish I could be there and celebrate 10 years of MIAP with you, but I feel with bringing together P&P and MIAP in the EYE was in itself a celebration of both our programs, and a confirmation of the rightness of our hunch that the time was right for such an initiative. That you -- with Orphans -- were able to give it such an internationally recognizable and recognised face is a stroke of good fortune.
So - on to the next ten years!
Best
Thomas.
Prof. Thomas Elsaesser
New York, NY
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