HOOSIER PROMENADE (IU Audio-Visual Center, 1957)

Submit poster designs for Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Imag

Poster contest! (Win free registration to the symposium.)

The IU Cinema, IU Libraries Film Archive, and the Orphan Film Symposium invite aesthetically-minded fans of the moving image to submit poster designs for Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Image. This three-day symposium hosts an impressive gathering of scholars, archivists, and media artists, screening dozens of cinema rarities and rediscoveries, as well as new productions, music performances, and curated presentations. “Orphan films” are all manner of neglected and ephemeral cinematic artifacts, ranging from home movies to outtakes to educational movies to newsreels. More information:

Design Details:

All information below must be included in the poster

● Size: 12in x 18in
● Title: Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Image
● Dates: September 26-28, 2013
● IU Cinema website: http://www.cinema.indiana.edu/
● Additional Information number: 812-856-2503
● IU Cinema logo: Download versions here.
● Sponsors (can be in small print if needed): Presented by IU Libraries Film Archive, Indiana University Cinema and NYU Cinema Studies. This project is supported by Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program and the College of Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI). Other partners include IU’s Department of Communication and Culture’s Film and Media Studies Program, Black Film Center/Archive, The Kinsey Institute, Lilly Library, and the Media Preservation Initiative.

NOTE: Design contest winners may need to make minor edits to design prior to printing

Winning Design

● Will be printed and distributed around campus and community, and will be included in promotional materials online and at conference
● Designer will receive their choice of a framed copy of the poster or a pass to the 2013 Orphan Film Symposium

Submission Deadline and Technical Specifications

● Design submissions are due by August 12, 2013
● Design must not include copyrighted images, characters, or clip art
● Submissions should be in the form of a high resolution (150 dpi minimum) .pdf file
● Submissions can be sent to orphansmidwest@gmail.com.
● If submissions are too large to email, submissions can be in the form of a downloadable file, with a link provided

Opening day: Sept. 26: PLACING ORPHAN FILMS

Opening day of "Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Image" at Indiana University, a special graduate student conference precedes the evening screening.  (Register: click here.)

Thursday, September 26, 2013, 9am to 5 pm

Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union, IU Bloomington campus

PLACING ORPHAN FILMS

A day of presentations examining how new categorizations are affecting media studies. Organized by SCMS’s Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group; 

led by Martin Johnson (Catholic U) and Andy Uhrich (Indiana U).

Conference Schedule Draft

8am coffee and pastries

9am Category Problems
Placing “Scientific” Cinema in the Pre-Nickelodeon Era
Luke Stadel (Northwestern U)

Amateur Adjacent and Nearly Orphaned: Complications in Categorization
Dave Sagehorn (Northwestern U)

Recurring Nightmares: The Shifting Ephemerality of “Exclusive” Serial Killer Interviews in America’s “Wound Culture”
Ashley R. Smith (Northwestern U)

10:15am coffee break

10:30am Toward a Historiography of Film’s Productive Forces,
via Twin Cities Archives

Films that Teach: Audio-Visual Education Services
Matt Levine (U of Minnesota)

Tracing the Archival Function: Home Movies, Amateur Films and the Institution
Rachel Schaff (U of Minnesota)

Walter Breckenridge and the Educational Nature Film of the 1950s
Anaïs Nony (U of Minnesota)

Media Ethnography in Practice: Sadie Benning, the Walker Art Center, and Social Capital in the Film Archive
Jen Hughes (U of Minnesota)

12noon lunch break

1pm Orphan Geographies

>¿Y los huérfanos?: On the Nontheatrical in Latin American Film Scholarship
Christopher Moore (Indiana U)

Local Orphans: Examining the Local through Detroit Newsreels
Ben Strassfeld (U of Michigan)

Orphan Films or Prisoners of War? The Use of Captured Enemy Motion Pictures as Evidence and Intelligence during World War II
Nate Brennan (New York U)

2:15pm snack break

2:30pm Future Directions

Un-Caging the Orphan: What Intersectionality Can Teach Us about the
Educational Role of Orphan Works
Ashley Blewer and Travis Wagner (U of South Carolina)

Orphan Films and Digital Humanities: Bad Metadata as a Barrier to Good Research
Brian Real (U of Maryland)

“It’s the pictures that got small”: Incorporating Video in the Orphans Movement
Kit Hughes (U of Wisconsin - Madison)

3:45 p.m. snack break

4:00 p.m. Closing Thoughts?


NOTE: The Orphans Midwest opening reception begins at 6:30 p.m.