Here's maestro Mark Quigley's note on the UCLA Film & Television Archive's participation in the the Orphan Film events at the Academy May 10 and 11.
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May 10, 2013
May 9, 2013
"Takes in Strays"
The Los Angeles Times for May 8 features this piece on the Academy's orphan film events of May 10 and 11. Love the phrase "takes in strays." Writer Mark Olsen talked with filmmakers Penelope Spheeris and Jim Hoberman, as well as Milestone Film and Video's Dennis Doros and Randy Haberkamp, who runs the show at the Academy's film archive, its Herrick library, its Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, and the forthcoming museum.
'The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films' takes in strays
The festival at Linwood Dunn Theater includes 'Portrait of Jason' and other films that have been lost, overlooked or abandoned.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-academy-real-indies-orphan-films-20130509,0,5406338,full.story
May 7, 2013
Filmography for THE REAL INDIES, May 10+11
QUESTION: What's being projected at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater, May 10-11?
ANSWER:
- A New Look for the Bell System (Saul Bass, 1969)
- A Place to Stand (Christopher Chapman, 1967)
- BUILDING THE HOLLYWOODLAND SIGN (Fox News, 1923)
- City Harvest (United Films / OWI, ca. 1943)
- Don’t Bank on Amerika (Peter Biskind, 1970) excerpt
- Exploratorium (Jon Boorstin, 1974)
- Felix Ferdinando and His Orchestra in “Musical MomentS” (Bristolphone, ca. 1929)
- female-narrated trailers, Packard Humanities Institute Collection (1960-70s)
- footage of Hollywood Gay Pride Parade (Pat Rocco, 1971)
- footage of Showley Brothers Candy Factory (San Diego, 1924)
- Help! My Snowman’s Burning Down (Carson Davidson, 1964)
- Hey Mama (Vaughn Obern, 1969)
- home movie from San Francisco (Herman Barfield, ca. 1917)
- home movie of Satchel Paige and other all-stars (Richard Brooks, 1948)
- home movies from Expo 67 (Walter Forsberg, 1967/2004)
- home movies from NO MORE ROAD TRIPS? (Rick Prelinger, 2013)
- home movies of New Orleans (Helen Hill, 2000-2003)
- LEAD-INs (BET, Saundra Sharp and Thom Eubank, 1981)
- Mission to Mongo (Jim Hoberman, 1978)
- Naked Yoga (Paul Cordsen, 1974) excerpt
- OH MY GOD! IT’S HARROD BLANK (David Silberberg, 2008) excerpt
- outtake from PORTRAIT OF JASON (1967)
- PORTRAIT OF JASON (Shirley Clarke, 1967)
- RUNNING AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUT OFF (Les Blank, 1960)
- SHIT (Penelope Spheeris, 1969)
- snipe countdowns (ca. 1940s-60s) courtesy of Walter Forsberg
- T.A.C. Magnavox TV ad (ca. 1972)
- The Love Charm (Ray Rennahan, 1928) excerpt
- The Shape of Films to Come (CBS, 1968) excerpt
- Transformations (Ralph Sargent for IBM, 1968)
- Two: A Film Parable (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
- What About Thad (BYU/LDS Motion Picture Studio, 1973)
- When the Organ Played “Oh Promise Me” (Cecil Stokes, ca. 1943)
May 5, 2013
Get thee to A CLOSE LOOK AT ORPHAN FILMS, 10 & 11 de mayo
Cinco de mayo 2013
OMG! It's nearly time for the third iteration of what some Angelinos call "Orphans West." As happened in May 2009 at the Silent Movie Theater with The Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum, and in May 2011 at the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Billy Wilder Theater, this year the Academy is teaming with the NYU Orphan Film Symposium to bring a variety lineup of orphan films to Los Angeles. They call it The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films.
May 10, 8pm PORTRAIT OF JASON (1967) new restoration by the Academy Film Archive and Milestone Films. With guest speakers Robert Fiore (one of the very few crew members present for Shirley Clarke's all-night shoot with Jason), Oscar-winning documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and critic Elvis Mitchell.
Simply a great film.
May 11, 10:30 am til 11pmish -- More than 25 films and excerpts + lunch for a mere $15!
Reviving neglected works ranging from Penelope Spheeris's unseen student short (SHIT, 1969) to Jim Hoberman's experimental political essay film MISSION TO MONGO (1978 -- did you know the great critic J. Hoberman made films?) and Jon Boorstin introducing his beautiful EXPLORATORIUM (1974). Plus steam punk-archivist Dino Everett demonstrating a rare but functioning 16mm sound-on-disk projector from 1929. Plus the golden-tongued Rick Prelinger talks about his new production NO MORE ROAD TRIPS? Plus trailer, snipes, home movies, re-creations of home movies, small-gauge and 70mm films, the debuts of several new preservation projects, and brands few have heard of, like Auroratone and Bristolphone.
Newly added to the lineup: a tribute to Les Blank, with his first film RUNNING AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUT OFF (1960, made at the University of Southern California), print courtesy of Flower Films, and an excerpt from David Silberberg's documentary OH MY GOD! IT'S HARROD BLANK (2008). (Last-minute thanks to Harrod and David for their timely help.)
So SoCal friends: Buy tickets now, please! The evening screenings will be especially hot tickets, it seems.
Linwood Dunn Theater -- 1313 Vine Street -- Hollywood
a co-presentation
of
of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
and
New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Department of Cinema Studies
May 1, 2013
ACP: Free screening in Boston, Saturday, May 18th, 2pm
Happy May Day
From: Regina Longo
--
Regina M. Longo, PhD
Visiting Lecturer
Department of Film and Digital Media
Director
The Albanian Cinema Project
Apr 29, 2013
Wanted: graduate student presentations for Indiana University's Orphan Film event
Bloomington, IN --
The announcement below is from Martin L. Johnson [the film scholar, not Osa Johnson's filmmaking husband], who is organizing a one-day conference leading into the Orphans Midwest symposium at Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Johnson [thought not that Dr. Johnson] received his PhD from NYU Cinema Studies in 2011, has been teaching at UNC Chapel Hill, and has accepted a faculty position at Catholic University in Washington for fall 2013.
The announcement below is from Martin L. Johnson [the film scholar, not Osa Johnson's filmmaking husband], who is organizing a one-day conference leading into the Orphans Midwest symposium at Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Johnson [thought not that Dr. Johnson] received his PhD from NYU Cinema Studies in 2011, has been teaching at UNC Chapel Hill, and has accepted a faculty position at Catholic University in Washington for fall 2013.
Martin Johnson and Caitlin McGrath (U of Maryland) co-chair the Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Dave Sagehorn (doctoral candidate at Northwestern U), as the group's grad. student rep., is helping to plan the conference described below. This Thursday session is also designed to allow graduate students to attend the Orphans Midwest extravaganza that follows it.
The September 26th daytime event will be followed immediately that evening by the opening of the Orphan Film Symposium entitled "Materiality and the Moving Image," which will continue all day and night Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28, 2013. All at the IU Cinema. Registration is open. www.cinema.indiana.edu/about/orphans-midwest/
Call for
Papers -- from graduate students
contact martin.johnson@nyu.edu
Orphans,
Disciplines, and the Institutions of Cinema:
Placing Orphan Films
Indiana University Bloomington
Thursday, September 26, 2013
When the first Orphan Film Symposium was held in 1999, the agenda was
clear from its title: “Saving ‘Orphan Films’ in the Digital Age.” Fourteen
years, and eight symposia, later, orphan films no longer need scare quotes to
be identified, and many previously obscure and unknown films are now at the
center of archival and historical investigations of the cinema. Moreover,
recent edited collections such as Charles
Acland and Haidee Wasson’s Useful Cinema (Duke,
2011), and Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible’s Learning with the Lights Off: Educational
Film in the United States (Oxford, 2012), demonstrate the history of these
films before they were orphaned; they were produced, distributed, and exhibited
as part of a larger nontheatrical network and as active participants in
alternative cinema cultures.
In this one-day, graduate student conference is presented by the Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, in
conjunction with Orphans Midwest (Sept 26-28), Indiana University Cinema, Film
and Media Studies at Indiana University, the Department of Cinema Studies at
New York University.
We ask for papers that consider
the analytical, historiographic, and disciplinary consequences of
"placing" orphan films in particular theoretical and historical
categories. For example, does the identification of orphan works as educational,
medical, industrial, scientific, or other genres of films remind us of the
specific circumstances of their reception, or does it needlessly encourage a
tendency to ahistorically categorize films? Are auteurist histories of
individual directors overly dependent on art cinema modes of analysis, or do
they give us a way to think of these works are more than mere expressions of
institutional ideologies? Should we use the traditional tools of film studies,
such as close reading, to analyze orphan films? Or is it preferable to create
new methodologies that allow us to consider the tens of thousands of films that
make up the orphan archives? How can researchers of orphan films benefit from dialogue
with those in science studies, media ethnography, digital humanities, media
archeology, and other emerging fields of study to produce interdisciplinary historical
and theoretical work on orphan films?
Please submit 300-word proposals, and a brief bio, by May 10, 2013 to
Martin.Johnson[@]nyu.edu. If you wish to propose a pre-constituted panel, workshop, or
alternative presentation mode, please contact us as soon as possible to discuss
your plans.
Apr 17, 2013
Academy spotlight on 'Orphan Films'
According to Susan King and the April 17th L.A. Times. . . .
The academy will shine the spotlight on 'Orphan Films' in May
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will showcase rarely seen, previously overlooked films with a two-day screening series "The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films" May 10 and 11 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The series, presented in partnership with New York University and the Orphan Film Symposium, will feature the West Coast premiere of the restoration of "Portrait of Jason," Shirley Clarke's 1967 documentary about a gay African American self-described hustler. Elvis Mitchell will moderate a panel after the screening that will include Dennis Doros, co-founder of Milestone Films, which recently restored the film in partnership with the Academy Film Archive, and Robert Fiore, the film's assistant to the director.
The series will feature rare home movies, promotional films, silent rediscoveries and experimental shorts including works by Saul Bass and Satyajit Ray. Plus there are premieres of the restorations of Oscar-nominated "Exploratorium," Jim Hoberman's "Mission to Mongo" and Academy Award-winning cinematographer Ray Rennahan's "The Love Charm."
The series will feature rare home movies, promotional films, silent rediscoveries and experimental shorts including works by Saul Bass and Satyajit Ray. Plus there are premieres of the restorations of Oscar-nominated "Exploratorium," Jim Hoberman's "Mission to Mongo" and Academy Award-winning cinematographer Ray Rennahan's "The Love Charm."
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