Orphans 2017 / Orphelins de Paris: Registration open.

Orphans 2017 / Orphelins de Paris

La Cinémathèque française and New York University host a special edition of the Orphan Film Symposium, in Paris, March 2, 3, & 4, 2017.

Newly restored and previously unseen 90mm films by Étienne-Jules Marey, ca. 1894-1900, will debut at Orphans.

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The theme: Tests, Essais + Expérimentations

The symposium will take place during three mornings at the Cinémathèque française during Toute la mémoire du monde, International Festival of Film Restoration (March 1-5).

REGISTRATION is open now.

The Orphan Film Symposium convenes archivists, scholars, and artists devoted to saving, studying, and screening an eclectic variety of neglected cinema artifacts. “Orphan films” include works abandoned by their owners as well as the many motion pictures outside of the commercial mainstream that have been neglected by history. Updates about Orphelins de Paris will be posted to both the NYU Orphans  website (www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm) and this blog.

Registration for the symposium -- open to all -- comes with access to all five days and nights of the big festival. The fee is $200 USD  ($100 USD for students, retirees, and the underemployed). Simultaneous French and English translations provided. REGISTER HERE.

Take in the Toute la mémoire du monde festival's 90 screenings, roundtables, master classes, and cine-concerts, as well as an international symposium about the future of cinémathèques, and other presentations. Toute la mémoire du monde pasy tribute to CinemaScope, Soviet melodramas (35mm prints from Gosfilmofond), Finnish filmmaker Valentin Vaala, the American silent-era studio Triangle Film Corporation, and more. Parrain du festival (patron) Joe Dante; invité d'honneur (guest of honor) Wes Anderson.

Worth noting:

March 1: An international symposium on the future of the cinematheques hosted by Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC).

February 27-28:  The second FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) Winter School on Programming, a follow-up to the first in 2016, a training course in programming cinematheques.

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Orphans 2017 / Orphelins de Paris

La Cinémathèque française et New York University accueillent une édition spéciale de l’Orphan Film Symposium (Colloque sur les films orphelins), à Paris, du 2 au 4  mars 2017.

Newly restored and previously unseen 90mm films by Étienne-Jules Marey, ca. 1894-1900, will debut at Orphans.

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Le thème: Tests, Essais + Expérimentations.

Les chercheurs, étudiants, archivistes ou historiens du cinéma exploreront les fonds cinématographiques méconnus : ceux qui proviennent d’utilisations alternatives et expérimentales du film ; les tests techniques de toutes sortes ; des éléments de tournage qui incluent des prises coupées ou alternatives, des essais d’acteurs, des rushes ; les films maudits qui ne sont jamais sortis ou qui n’ont jamais été achevés ; les œuvres non montées ou non identifiées ; des extraits compilés ou du found footage ; les films indépendants, techniquement ambitieux.

Le colloque se tiendra  durant trois matinées à La Cinémathèque française, dans le cadre du festival international du film restauré Toute la mémoire du monde.


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Quels sont les enjeux de la conservation et de la valorisation de ces fonds cachés ou négligés, bien souvent volumineux ? Comment archiver, cataloguer ou rechercher ces éléments films ? Comment resituer les tests, essais et expérimentations dans les histoires du cinéma et dans la culture visuelle ?

Le colloque annuel sur les films orphelins, réunit les archivistes, chercheurs et artistes dévoués à la sauvegarde, l’étude et la valorisation d’un corpus éclectique d’éléments. "Orphan films" inclut des travaux abandonnés par leur propriétaire ainsi que la plupart des œuvres filmiques produites en dehors d’un circuit commercial dominant et qui ont été historiquement négligées.

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes à tous, incluant l’accès gratuit aux cinq jours de festival. Les frais d’inscription sont $200 USD et $100 USD (pour les étudiants). Traduction simultanée français/anglais à disposition. Inscrivez-vous ici.

Le festival Toute la mémoire du monde se tiendra du 1er au 5 mars et proposera plus de 90 projections, un colloque international sur l’avenir des cinémathèques et de nombreuses autres rencontres. La programmation rendra hommage au CinémaScope ou aux débuts de l’écran large, au mélodrame soviétique (avec des copies 35mm des collections du Gosfilmofond), à l’un des plus importants cinéastes finnois, Valentin Vaala, qui débuta sa longue carrière dans les années 1930, et à la Triangle Film Corporation, l’un des premiers studios américains. Joe Dante, Parrain du festival; Wes Anderson, Invité d'honneur.

A noter : 

1er mars : colloque international sur l’avenir des cinémathèques proposé par le CNC.

27-28 février : FIAF Winter School. Formation de deux jours sur la programmation (2ème volet)

La Programmation  complète du festival sera annoncée le 1er février

Maya Beiser in Films for Cello -- Indiana University Cinema -- Sept. 26

Here's a version of the press release from  www.christinajensenpr.com. 

Maya Beiser in Films for Cello

Indiana University Cinema

World Premiere of the film All Vows by Bill Morrison

Orphans Midwest 2013 Film Symposium

Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 8:30pm

Indiana University Cinema | Bloomington, IN

Tickets: $30 at the IU Auditorium Box Office. 812.855.1103.

Watch Maya’s new NPR Tiny Desk Concert:  http://bit.ly/NPRTinyDeskMaya

Bloomington, IN — Cellist Maya Beiser will perform live in Films for Cello, featuring music written by composers Steve Reich, Michael Gordon, and Michael Harrison, all with film by Bill Morrison, on Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 8:30pm presented by the Orphans Midwest Film Symposium at Indiana University Cinema. The evening includes the world premiere of Morrison’s film All Vows, with music by Michael Gordon, which was commissioned by Indiana University Cinema and the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program.

Films for Cello will begin with Light is Calling, written by Michael Gordon in his studio on Desbrosses Street in New York during the days and months after September 11, 2001. Morrison’s film for the piece was created by reprinting and re-editing a scene from the black and white 1926 film, The Bells. Maya will also perform Steve Reich’s iconic work, “Cello Counterpoint,” written for her in 2003 and scored for cello soloist with seven pre-recorded cello parts. Reich calls the work, “one of the most difficult pieces I have ever written.”

The second half of the program begins with Just Ancient Loops, a 25-minute piece by Michael Harrison that unveils every aspect of the cello – from its most glorious and mysterious harmonics to earthy, rhythmic pizzicatos. Morrison’s film for the piece makes use of archival footage, chemical processes and animation to present a unique view of the heavens.

Michael Gordon’s composition “All Vows” is a reimagination of Kol Nidre, the opening prayer of the Yom Kippur service. The music was commissioned for Maya in 2006, through the generosity of the Maria and Robert A. Skirnick Fund for New Works at Carnegie Hall. Of his new film All Vows, which completes the program at the IU Cinema, Bill Morrison says, “As in my previous work with Michael, the film will highlight the fragile and corporeal nature of ancient film stock – the implication of an unknowable future as reflected through a dissolving historic document.” [Note: Gordon has substantially revised the music for this new incarnation.] Over the past 20 years Bill Morrison has built a filmography of more than 30 projects that have been presented in theaters, museums, galleries and concert halls worldwide. His work often makes use of rare archival footage in which forgotten film imagery is reframed as part of our collective mythology. Variety calls him, “One of the most adventurous American filmmakers.”

Beiser bio:  Raised in the Galilee Mountains in Israel, surrounded with the music and rituals of Jews, Muslims, and Christians, while studying classical cello repertoire, Maya has dedicated her work to reinventing solo cello performance in the mainstream classical arena. A featured performer on the world’s most prestigious stages, she has collaborated with artists across a wide range of musical styles, including Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Tan Dun, James Newton Howard and Carter Burwell, among many others.

            Maya’s 2011 TEDtalk performance has been watched by close to one million people. It featured “Cello Counterpoint” with Bill Morrison’s video of the same title (watch at http://bit.ly/MayaTEDTalk).

            Maya is a graduate of Yale University and a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Her discography includes five solo albums and many studio recordings and film music collaborations. Her 2010 album Provenance topped the classical and world music charts.  Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard, Maya is the featured soloist on several film soundtracks including M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters, Edward Zwick’s Blood Diamond, Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman, and M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth.

Maya tweets: @cellogoddess.

She is managed by Opus 3 Artists.

Photos by ioulex, available in high resolution at www.christinajensenpr.com.

www.MayaBeiser.com.

More than 60 presenters at IU's Orphan Film Symposium (Orphans Midwest)

Registration is open for the Orphan Film Symposium at Indiana University Bloomington

Orphans Midwest:  Materiality and the Moving Image, September 26-28, 2013

More than 60 presenters!  Filmmakers, archivists, scholars, curators, technology experts, librarians, preservationists, collectors, media artists, programmers, producers, distributors, museologists, students, educators, fellows, musicians, DJs, composers, projectionists, enthusiasts, researchers, historians, digital humanists. . . . 

Join us.

Slated presenters:

Albert Steg (Center for Home Movies)   

Alex Kupfer (NYU) 

Allyson Nadia Field (UCLA)

Amy Beste (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) 

Anaïs Nony (U of Minnesota)

Andrea J. Kelley (IU)

Andrew Beckman (Studebaker National Museum)

Andy Uhrich (IU)

Anne Wells (Chicago Film Archives)

Ashley Blewer (U of South Carolina)

Ashley R. Smith (Northwestern U) 

Ben Strassfeld (U of Michigan)

Bill Morrison (Hypnotic Pictures)

Bradley Reeves (Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound)

Brian Graney (IU Black Film Center/Archive) 

Brian Real (U of Maryland) 

Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin Films) 

Craig Kridel (U of South Carolina Museum of Education) 

Dan Streible (NYU Orphan Film Symposium)

Dave Sagehorn (Northwestern U) 

Donald Crafton (U of Notre Dame)

Eric Schaefer (Emerson College)  

Gabriel Gutierrez Arellano (composer)

Garden Gates (Josephine McRobbie, et al.)

Greg Pierce (Orgone Archive)

Greg Wilsbacher (U of South Carolina)

Gregory A. Waller (IU) 

Heddi Vaughan Siebel (media artist) 

Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago)

Jake Austen (Roctober Productions)

James Paasche (IU)  

Jane Gillooly (School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Jeff Martin (Independent Media Arts Preservation) 

Jen Hughes  (U of Minnesota)

Jennifer Reeves (Cooper Union)

Jon Vickers (IU Cinema)

Joseph Slade (Ohio U)

Kelli Hix  (Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)

Kit Hughes (U of Wisconsin - Madison) 

Liana Zhou (IU Kinsey Institute)  

Liz Coffey (Harvard Film Archive)

Luke Stadel (Northwestern U)   

Lylas (Kyle Hamlett, et al., Nashville, Tennessee)

Marsha Gordon (North Carolina State U)

Martin Johnson (Catholic U)

Matt Levine (U of Minnesota)

Maya Beiser (Opus 3 artist)

Mike Casey (IU Media Preservation Services)  

Mike Mashon (Library of Congress)

Mona Jimenez (NYU)

Nadia Ghasedi (Washington U)

Natasha Ritsma (Kenyon College) 

Nate Brennan (NYU)

Noelle Griffis (IU) 

Rachael Stoeltje (IU Libraries Film Archive)

Rachel Schaff (U of Minnesota)

Russell Sheaffer (IU)

S. Torriano Berry (Howard U) 

Sara Chapman (Media Burn)

Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks)

Stefan Elnabli (Northwestern U Library) 

Tom Gunning (U of Chicago)

Travis Wagner (U of South Carolina)