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.

Such a program! Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Image

IU Libaries Film Archive, IU Cinema, & NYU Orphan Film Symposium 

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Orphans Midwest:  Materiality and the Moving Image

September 26-28, 2013

@ Indiana University Bloomington

www.cinema.indiana.edu/about/orphans-midwest

Thursday, Sept. 26  9am-5pm,

Indiana University Memorial Union (Dogwood Room)

    SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group graduate student conference

Placing Orphan Films

Conveners: 

Martin Johnson (Catholic U), Amanda Keeler (Marquette U), and Andy Uhrich (IU)

8am                 coffee & pastries

9am  Category Problems

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

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

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

10:15am          coffee break

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

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

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

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

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

12noon            lunch

1pm     Orphan Geographies

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

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

2:15pm             break 

2:30pm  Future Directions

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

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

Kit Hughes (U of Wisconsin - Madison)  “It’s the Pictures that Got Small”: Incorporating Video in the Orphans Movement

3:45pm             break

4:00pm  Closing Thoughts

6:30pm  Opening Reception  IU Auditorium 

8:30pm  Films for Cello   

Four works presented by filmmaker Bill Morrison 

with live performance by Opus 3 artist and cello virtuoso Maya Beiser

            Light Is Calling (2004) music by Michael Gordon

            Cello Counterpoint (2005) music by Steve Reich for Maya Beiser

            Just Ancient Loops (2012) music by Michael Harrison for Maya Beiser

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            world premiere of All Vows, with Michael Gordon’s music, “All Vows” (2006)

Indiana University Cinema and the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program commissioned Bill Morrison’s All Vows. The project is supported by Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Institute.

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Friday, Sept. 27  in the Indiana University Cinema

9:00am Welcome

Orphans Midwest trailer (Russell Sheaffer, 2013)

Rachael Stoeltje (IU Libraries Film Archive), Jon Vickers (IU Cinema), Dan Streible (NYU Orphan Film Symposium)

9:15am Keynote by Tom Gunning (U of Chicago)

10:00am  Silent-Era Films  

Mike Mashon (Library of Congress) Paper Prints in the DataCine Era   

Dan Streible (NYU) Versions of "Films": Kinetoscopic and Digital

Heddi Vaughan Siebel (media artist) Anthony Fiala’s Arctic Expedition Films, 1901-1905

            + A Dash to the North Pole (Charles Urban, 1909) compilation film, with partially retitled with Swiss German intertitles. 35mm print from BFI National Archive

Greg Wilsbacher (U of South Carolina) The Fox Varieties Series: Frogland (192?) and the Unreleased A Frontier Post (1925)

11:30am  break 

11:45am Media Migration  chair: Jeff Martin (Independent Media Arts Preservation)  

Mike Casey (IU Media Preservation Services) The Media Preservation Initiative

Stefan Elnabli (Northwestern U Library)  The Open-Source Avalon Media System: Digitizing 2,425 Wildcat 16mm Football Films (1929-89)

Mona Jimenez (NYU) Early Video Processing Tools: Art & Technology

1:15pm  lunch  

2:30pm Educational Films and University Distribution chair: Rachael Stoeltje

Alex Kupfer (NYU) University Extension Programs and Nontheatrical Film Distribution

Natasha Ritsma (Kenyon College) History of the IU Audio-Visual Center  

Amy Beste (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) EB Films: The Living City (1953)

Marsha Gordon (NC State U) & Allyson Nadia Field (UCLA) On Felicia (U of California Media Center, ca. 1965) and Felicia Bragg

4:15pm  break 

4:30pm  Indiana – Working for a Living   

Donald Crafton (U of Notre Dame) and Andrew Beckman (Studebaker National Museum) Partnership of Faith (Studebaker Corp., 1949)

Gregory A. Waller (IU) a home movie from Brown County

James Paasche (IU) Transportation Underground: The Story of a Pipeline (Robert Young, for Indiana Farm Bureau Co-Op Association, 1953)

6:30pm  dinner break (on your own)

8:30pm Portmanteau: 35mm, 16mm, HD, and ¼” Magnetic Audio Tape

Kit Hughes (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research) trailers from the Emile de Antonio Collection: Millhouse: A White Comedy (1971) and the German-language Point of Order (1964)

Greg Wilsbacher introduces the premiere of the 35mm restoration A Frontier Post (Fox, 1925), musical accompaniment by Gabriel Gutierrez Arellano

Jennifer Reeves introduces her hand-painted 16mm film Landfill 16 (2011)

Albert Steg (Center for Home Movies) introduces Suitcase of Love and Shame (Jane Gillooly, 2013) and the suitcase of tapes he discovered

Q&A with filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow Jane Gillooly (School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Extramural Blue Note: IU Cinema’s public programming on this Friday night includes a midnight screening relevant to the symposium, but not technically part of Orphans Midwest. Free admission for registered symposium attendees.

11:59 pm  public screening (Adults only.)

Eric Schaefer (Emerson College) introduces William Mishkin productions

            The Orgy at Lil’s Place (Jerald Intrator, 1963) 77’

            + trailer for Fleshpot on 42nd Street (Andy Milligan, 1972)

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Saturday, Sept. 28 in the Indiana University Cinema

9:00am Outs & Trims  

Nadia Ghasedi (Washington U) from Eyes on the Prize, Henry Hampton Collection

Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin Films) from Kartemquin Films  
Ken Eisenstein (Bucknell U) from the Hollis Frampton Collection

Noelle Griffis (IU) from the Peter Bogdanovich Collection  

10:45am  break 

11:00am  Off the Rails: Hell Bound Train  

Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago) and Brian Graney (IU Black Film Center/Archive) Early Black Film Artifacts as Material Evidence: Digital Regeneration

S. Torriano Berry (Howard U) Reconstructing the Eloyce Gist Film Fragments at the Library of Congress: Hell Bound Train (1929-30) and Verdict Not Guilty (1930-33)

12:30pm  lunch 

2:00pm Kinsey Institute Film Archive chair: Russell Sheaffer (IU)

Eric Schaefer (Emerson College) on William Mishkin and The Orgy at Lil’s Place (1963) Joseph Slade (Ohio U) and Liana Zhou (Kinsey Institute)   

3:30pm  break 

3:45pm Recontextualizing Bits & Pieces  

Greg Wilsbacher on Indiana University Graduation (Fox Movietone News, 1929)  

Craig Kridel (U of South Carolina Museum of Education) Alice Keliher and the Human Relations Film Series (1937-1942)

Screening: a rare archival16mm print from the HR series:

Fury (lynching) (Human Relations Commission, 1939)

edited by Helen van Dongen

from Fritz Lang's Fury (MGM, 1936)

Andy Uhrich (IU) The Film Group of Chicago: Advertising Films and Verité Documentary  

5:15pm  break 

5:30pm Closing Thoughts and Discussion

6pm  reception +  dinner, IU Art Museum

    featuring Skip’s 16mm Silent Science Screening projected by Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks)

8:30pm  Music in Orphan Films in the Indiana University Cinema

Curated by Kelli Hix  

(singer/songwriter, musician, and film archivist at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum) 

Hix Pix Mix likely to include things such as:

Bradley Reeves (Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound): Kincaid on Makin’ Music (WBIR-TV, Knoxville, 1983)

Andrea J. Kelley (IU): Hong Kong Blues and Lazy Bones (1941, Hoagy Carmichael) IU Archive of Traditional Music

Asia Harman (IU Libraries Film Archive): Hoosier Promenade (Janet R. MacLean; IU Audio-Visual Center, 1957)

Anne Wells (Chicago Film Archives): Park Band (Hedman-Gray, Inc., ca. 1965)

Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin Films): Anonymous Artists of America (Gordon Quinn and Jerry Temaner, 1970)

Greg Pierce (Orgone Archive): Sonambients: The Sound Sculpture of Harry Bertoia (Jeffrey Eger, 1971)

Garden Gates:  performing live with a collage of science and nature films from IU Libraries Film Archive

Andy Uhrich (Center for Home Movies): Blanche’s Recital (Arthur H. Smith, 1977), with live accompaniment by Lylas

Kelli Hix (Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum):  Super 8 Kodachrome home movie of Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, and other country music stars in Anderson, Indiana  (1971)

Jake Austen (Roctober Productions):  Chic-A-Go-Go highlights (Chicago Access Network Television, 1996-2013)

Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks):  All Girl Melody Makers (Castle Films, 1946)

Sara Chapman ( Media Burn Independent Video Archive): Cheat-U-Fair (Columbia College Visual Production Seminar: Carl German, Thomas Phillips, Bruce Real, Scott Rosenthal, Marsha Rudak, Bob Schordje, and Al Stoncius; instructor Jim Passin, 1980)

Liz Coffey (Harvard Film Archive): Honky Tonk Bud (Scott Laster, 1986)