NYU Cinema Studies presents the
11th Orphan Film Symposium, April 11 – 14, 2018
Museum of the Moving Image
Theme: Love.
Wednesday, April 11, 7:00 pm Reception for registered symposiasts11th Orphan Film Symposium, April 11 – 14, 2018
Museum of the Moving Image
Theme: Love.
8:00 pm Opening Screening
Becca Bender (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts / NYU MIAP) Discovering the Leopold Godowsky Jr. Collection: Home Movies of the Co-inventor of Kodachrome + with the first screening ever of [Elsa and Albert Einstein in Hollywood] (1931) with Roni Grosz (Albert Einstein Archive, Hebrew U)
Frannie Trempe (NYU MIAP) Nitrate in the Girl Scouts Archive
Karen Falk (The Jim Henson Company) & Craig Shemin (The Jim Henson Legacy) The Early Films of Jim Henson, including the newly-restored Time Piece (1965)
Anna Tantillo (NYU) moderator
Thursday, April 12,
9:30am Welcomes
David Schwartz (Museum of the Moving Image) & Anna McCarthy (NYU Cinema Studies)
Dan Streible (NYU) Why Love?
[Dr. Fritz] Wittels on This Thing Called Love (Fox Movietone News, 1929) U of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections
Observations on Romantic Love (with Stephen Parr and George Willeman, 2010)
Thursday, 10:00 -- 11:00 am Keynote
Jennifer Peterson (Woodbury U) Love, Loss, and Climate Change: Watching the Historical Nature Film Today (with newly scanned films from the David Shepard Collection, USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive)
Thursday, 11:20 – 1:15 pm An Amateur League of Nations: A Database
Charles Tepperman (U of Calgary) Příběh vojáka (A Soldier’s Story; Čeněk Zahradníček & Vladimír Šmejkal, 1934) and the 1938 International Amateur Movie Show
Alexander Stark (Philipps U, Marburg) “Help us help!”: German Postwar Charity Films by Elisabeth Wilms. Schaffende in Not (Working People in Trouble, 1948)
Eva Näripea (National Archives of Estonia) Forbidden[?] Love Behind the Iron Curtain: Peeter Tooming’s Sentimentaalne novell (A Sentimental Short Story, 1966)
Tzutzumatzin Soto (Cineteca Nacional México) Love at the (Permanent) Time of Political Repression in Mexico: Hare Krishna (Alfredo Gurrola, 1973)
Lunch in the museum, 1:15 – 2:30 pm
Thursday, 2:30 - 4:10pm Small-Gauge Love from South American Archives
Rafael de Luna (Federal Fluminense U, Brazil) A 9.5mm film of the Rio beach resort: Balneario da Urca (Brazil, ca. 1933) from the Collection of LUPA-UFF
Beatriz Rodovalho (U Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3) Family Films from the Alberto Sampaio Collection (1920-1930), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Paola Prestes Penney (U of São Paolo) Fifty Years of Partnership: Dance Films from the Herbert and Maria Duchesnes Collection (1943-1990)
Isabel Wschebor Pellegrino (U de la República, Montevideo) Rescuing the Science Film Comportamiento Sexual y Reproducción de Bothriurus Bonariensis (Plácido Añón, Uruguay, 1959)
Juana Suárez (NYU MIAP) moderator
Thursday, 4:30 – 6:00pm The Subject Is Sex
Barbara Miller (MoMI) The Variety Photo Plays Theater Collection of Posters for X-rated Movies, 1965-1983
Michael Loebenstein (Austrian Filmmuseum) Risque Super 8s and Amateur Scopophilia
Oliver Gaycken (U of Maryland) & Sarah Eilers (National Library of Medicine) Love Doctors and Medical Media: Training Films for Physicians and Psychologists Providing Counseling for Sexual Dysfunction
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Danielle Ash (Helen Hill Award 2010) 70mm screening: Love in Dimension 150 (2018)
Dinner break 6pm
Thursday, April 12, 8:00 pm The Helen Hill Award
Bill Brand (BB Optics) Helen Hill’s Super 8 home movies of New Orleans (ca. 2001-2005)
Susan Courtney (U of South Carolina) Helen Hill Award presented to filmmaker Nazlı Dinçel
An all-16mm program of Her Silent Seaming (2014), Solitary Acts (4, 5, 6) (2015), Inability (2016), & Between Relating and Use (2018)
Jeanne Liotta (UC Boulder) moderator
Friday, April 13, 9:30 – 11:00 am The Languages of Home Movies
Dwight Swanson (Center for Home Movies) Introductions: Fee (Germany, 1929)
Rob Anen (Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island) The 35mm Home Movies of John S. Phipps, 1916-1930
Louisa Trott (U of Tennessee) Picturing Himself: Walther Barth in Walther Barth’s Home Movies
Matt Malzkuhn (Gallaudet U) & Ted Supalla (Georgetown U) Sign Language in Home Movies
Friday, April 13, 11:20 – 12:50 pm Technophilia
John Froats (collector) Computer Rendering on 16mm at Bell Labs: Patterns (A. Michael Noll, 1964-65)
Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago) & Candace Ming (South Side Home Movie Project) Robert Patton Filmed Helicopters, 1969-1970s
Kathleen Maguire (The Exploratorium) Ivan Dryer’s Laserium and Laserimage (1972)
Simon Tarr & Evan Meaney (U of South Carolina) VRchive: Finding Archival Moving Images with Tactile Technology
Walter Forsberg (Laboratorio Experimental de Cine - CDMX) moderator
Lunch in the museum, 12:50 -2:15pm
Friday, 2:15 – 4:00 pm Amateur Collectors and Collections
Brigitte Paulowitz (Lichtspiel / Kinemathek, Bern) The Richard Ernst Collection of 17.5mm and 35mm Family Films, 1914-1932
Brian Meacham (Yale U) The “Cynniewink” Sets Sail: The Films of S.W. and Cynthia Childs -- I’d Be Delighted To! (1932)
May Haduong & Sean Savage (Academy Film Archive) Together Un/Known: Archival Ethics and the Case of Acquisition 6130
Charles Musser (Yale U) moderator
Friday, 4:20- 6:00 pm Cameraman, Camerawoman
Marsha Gordon (NCSU) & Buckey Grimm (independent) Camerawoman Angela Murray Gibson Films Herself into History, 1921-1925
Mila Turajlic (filmmaker, Belgrade) Tito’s Cameraman: Stevan Labudović (1926-2017), Yugoslav Newsreels, and the Non-Aligned Movement in Algeria
Alia Ayman (Zawya Cinema, Cairo) moderator
Dinner break 6:00 pm
Friday, April 13, 8:00 pm Hate and Love in Silent Cinema
Dino Everett (USC Hefner Moving Image Archive) & Allyson Nadia Field (U of Chicago) The Premiere of the Rediscovered Something Good -- Negro Kiss (Selig, 1898)
Chen Biqiang (China Film Archive) & Zhang Zhen (NYU Asian Film and Media Initiative) U.S. premiere of the restoration of Laogong zhi aiqing (Laborer’s Love, 1922) the oldest surviving Chinese film
Andrés Levinson & Paula Félix Didier (Museo del Cine) Premiere of the Reconstructed La Fiera Domada (1916/1923) with W. S. Hart and Bessie Love
Two Three American Beauties (Edison, 1906) Museum of Modern Art & National Library of Norway
Stephen Horne (UK) piano accompaniment
Saturday, 9:30 am Something Good
Terri Francis (Indiana U Black Film Center/Archive), Charlene Regester (UNC), & Lina Accurso (Alice B. Russell Micheaux Headstone Project) Looking for Alice: Love as Film Studies Methodology
Allyson Nadia Field (U of Chicago) & Dino Everett (U of Southern California) Black Intimacy in Early Cinema: Another Look at Something Good -- Negro Kiss (1898)
Ina Archer (National Museum of African American History and Culture) "Someone to Watch Over Me": Newly Preserved Films, Discs, and Tapes from the NMAAHC Collection and the Great Migration Public Digitization Initiative (See and hear Cab Calloway, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Ella Fitzgerald, and Kreisler's Bandstand.)
Saturday, 11:20 am - 12:20 pm Archival Education about Orphan Works
Prelude: Matt Soar (Concordia U) Love Leaders (2018)
Dimitrios Latsis, Isaac Prusky, David Emery, & Blanche Joslin (Ryerson U)
Howard Besser (NYU MIAP)
Lunch in the museum, 12:20 – 1:30 pm
Saturday, 1:30 pm - 3 pm Seeing the World
Lindsay Zarwell (US Holocaust Memorial Museum) Robert Gessner Films the Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East, 1934-35
Liz Czach (U of Alberta) “The Girls,” Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield: Trailblazers of Travel Lecture Filmmaking, 1959-1979
Ting-Wu Cho (NYU, with Taiwan Film Institute) Screen Representations of Taiwanese Aborigines: Wild Men of Formosa -- outtakes (US, Fox, 1921), Native Trading Post -- outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1930), Going South to Taiwan (Japan, 1937), and Happenings in Ali Shan (China, 1949)
Tami Williams (UW Milwaukee) moderator
Saturday, 3:15 – 4:10 pm Cultural Exchanges and Music
Marie Lascu, Michael Grant, & Brendan Allen (XFR Collective) Video Rescues from the Surry (Maine) Arts at the Barn, 1986-88 (and the Leningrad Amateur Opera Company)
Maria Vinogradova (Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia) A Soviet Amateur Film about a Leningrad Amateur Accordion Ensemble, Tvorchestvo est' tvorchestvo (Creativity Is Creativity, 1975)
Saturday, 4:30 pm A Screening in Tribute to Stephen Parr and His Oddball Films
Programmed by Skip Elsheimer, Genevieve Havemeyer-King, Jeff Lambert, Andrew Lampert, Regina Longo, & Greg Pierce
including
* Albanian animation, Koha e Dashurisë së Akrepave (The Lovetime of Scorpions, Ergys Faja & Bertrand Shijaku, 2003)
* I Reminisce (Veronica Majano, 2004)
* Living in a Reversed World (Austrian Ministry of Education, 1958)
and others
Dinner reception, 6:00 pm
Saturday, 8:00 pm Last Loves . . . and a Wow Finish
Frank Roumen (EYE Netherlands Filmmuseum) Buona Sera Fiori! (Italy, 1909)
Jeff Lambert (National Film Preservation Foundation) with the newly preserved Cupid in Quarantine (1918)
Carolina Cappa (Museo del Cine) Domingo Filippini’s Galería Cinematográfica Infantil (General Pico, La Pampa, Argentina, ca. 1927)
Katy Martin introduces her Super 8 love poem Daffodils (1977)
Sarah Keller (UMass Boston) & filmmaker Barbara Hammer with Super 8 projections of Aldebaran Sees (1969) & Contribution to Light (1968)
Courtney Stephens (Veggie Cloud) & KJ Relth (UCLA) premiere Mating Games (2018) with 1963 home movies by Muscle Beach legend Russell Saunders
Todd Wiener (UCLA Film & Television Archive) Nikolai Ursin's Behind Every Good Man . . . (ca. 1967) 16mm restored print courtesy of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Collection. Restoration funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation
David Schwartz (MoMI) shares . . . .
The schedule may be subject to change.
