Video streaming of Placing Orphan Films.
Sep 26, 2013
Sep 25, 2013
Live stream of "Placing Orphan Films" -- Thursday, Sept. 26
Terrific news: Live webcasting of Thursday, Sept. 26, conference "Placing Orphan Films." See below from conveners Martin Johnson, Amanda Keeler, and Andy Uhrich.
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The SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group presents a graduate student conference, "Placing Orphan Films," a pre- Orphans Midwest event, this Thursday, at Indiana University. From 9:00 am to 5:00pm the presentations will be streamed live for those not in Bloomington.
Graduate students, emerging scholars, and film archivists from the Midwest and beyond will be analyzing the limits of the term orphan as a concept for addressing nontheatrical film. The wide-ranging topics being covered include the origins of scientific filmmaking, fan archiving of serial killer TV shows, locating the orphan film within the collecting institution, and how applying non-cinema studies approaches can open up new understandings of orphan films.
Placing Orphan Films
Thursday, September 26, 8 – 5pm
Bloomington, Indiana location: IMU Dogwood Room
Rest of the World location: http://www.indiana.edu/~
PLACING ORPHAN FILMS
Conveners: Martin Johnson (Catholic U), Amanda Keeler (Marquette U), and Andy Uhrich (Indiana U)
(NYU alumni in violet ;>)
9am Category Problems
Chair: Josh Malitsky (IU)
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”
10:30am Toward a Historiography of Film’s Productive Forces, via Twin Cities Archives
Chair: Martin Johnson (Catholic U)
Matt Levine (U of Minnesota) Films that Teach: Audio-Visual Education Services
Rachel Schaff (U of M) Tracing the Archival Function: Home Movies, Amateur Films and the Institution
Anaïs Nony (U of M) Walter Breckenridge and the Educational Nature Film of the 1950s
12:00 noon lunch break
1pm Orphan Geographies
Chair: Gregory A. Waller (IU)
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
2:30pm Future Directions
Chair: Marsha Gordon (North Carolina State U)
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 into the Orphans Movement
4:00pm Closing Thoughts
The SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group presents a graduate student conference, "Placing Orphan Films," a pre- Orphans Midwest event, this Thursday, at Indiana University. From 9:00 am to 5:00pm the presentations will be streamed live for those not in Bloomington.
Graduate students, emerging scholars, and film archivists from the Midwest and beyond will be analyzing the limits of the term orphan as a concept for addressing nontheatrical film. The wide-ranging topics being covered include the origins of scientific filmmaking, fan archiving of serial killer TV shows, locating the orphan film within the collecting institution, and how applying non-cinema studies approaches can open up new understandings of orphan films.
Placing Orphan Films
Thursday, September 26, 8 – 5pm
Bloomington, Indiana location: IMU Dogwood Room
Rest of the World location: http://www.indiana.edu/~
PLACING ORPHAN FILMS
Conveners: Martin Johnson (Catholic U), Amanda Keeler (Marquette U), and Andy Uhrich (Indiana U)
(NYU alumni in violet ;>)
9am Category Problems
Chair: Josh Malitsky (IU)
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”
10:30am Toward a Historiography of Film’s Productive Forces, via Twin Cities Archives
Chair: Martin Johnson (Catholic U)
Matt Levine (U of Minnesota) Films that Teach: Audio-Visual Education Services
Rachel Schaff (U of M) Tracing the Archival Function: Home Movies, Amateur Films and the Institution
Anaïs Nony (U of M) Walter Breckenridge and the Educational Nature Film of the 1950s
12:00 noon lunch break
1pm Orphan Geographies
Chair: Gregory A. Waller (IU)
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
2:30pm Future Directions
Chair: Marsha Gordon (North Carolina State U)
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 into the Orphans Movement
4:00pm Closing Thoughts
Sep 23, 2013
Complete program: Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Image
Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Image
a film symposium
at Indiana University Bloomington
presented by Indiana University Cinema, IU Libraries Film Archive,
and NYU Cinema Studies/Tisch School of the Arts
Thursday,
Sept. 26
6:30pm
Opening Reception IU Auditorium
Remarks by IU Cinema Director Jon Vickers, with Dean of University Libraries Brenda L. Johnson, and
IU President Michael A. McRobbie
IU President Michael A. McRobbie
8:30pm Films for Cello in the Indiana University Cinema
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
Just Ancient
Loops (2012) music by
Michael Harrison
All
Vows (world premiere) music by
Michael Gordon
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.
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
chair: Dan Streible
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) 35mm, BFI
National Archive
Greg Wilsbacher (U of South Carolina) The Fox Varieties
Series: Frogland (192?) and the
Unreleased A Frontier Post (1925)
11:45am
Media Migration chair: Jeff Martin (Independent Media
Arts Preservation)
Mike Casey (IU
Media Preservation Services) The Media Preservation Initiative
Stefan Elnabli (Northwestern
Library) The
Wildcats 16mm Football Film Collection (1929-89): Digitization and Access
Mona Jimenez (NYU)
Early
Video Processing Tools: Art & Technology
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) Encyclopedia Britannica Films: The Living City (1953)
Marsha Gordon (NC
State U) & Allyson Nadia Field (UCLA)
On Felicia (Alan Gorg, Bob Dickson, and Trevor
Greenwood, ca. 1965)
4:30pm Indiana – Working for a Living chair: Greg Waller
Donald Crafton (U of Notre Dame) and Andrew Beckman (Studebaker National Museum) Partnership of Faith (Studebaker Corp., 1949)
Gregory A. Waller (IU) an amateur film of farm and apple orchard in Hickory Hill, Indiana (ca. 1930) musical accompaniment by Jason Fickel
James Paasche (IU) Transportation
Underground: The Story of a Pipeline (Robert Young, for Indiana Farm
Bureau Co-Op Association, 1953)
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, including Millhouse: A White
Comedy (1971) and the German-language version of Point of Order (1963).
Greg Wilsbacher introduces the premiere of the 35mm restoration of 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)
11:59pm Midnight Show: The Orgy at Lil’s Place (Jerald Intrator, 1963) 77’
introduced by
+ a trailer for Fleshpot on 42nd Street (Andy Milligan,
1972)
Saturday, Sept. 28
9:00am
Outtakes from . . . chair:
Noelle Griffis
Noelle Griffis (IU) the Peter Bogdanovich
Collection
Nadia Ghasedi (Washington U) Eyes on the Prize, Henry Hampton
Collection
Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin Films) The Interrupters (2011) and other Kartemquin
Films
Ken Eisenstein (Bucknell U) Dream, from Hollis Frampton’s Magellan
cycle
11:00am
Off
the Rails: Hell Bound Train chair:
Brian Graney
Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago) Early Black Film Artifacts as
Material Evidence
S. Torriano
Berry (Howard U) Reconstructing/Resurrecting the Eloyce Gist Collection Film
Fragments at the Library of Congress: Hell
Bound Train (1929-30) and Verdict Not Guilty (1930-33)
Brian Graney (IU Black Film Center/Archive) Hell Bound Train: Tracking Preservation
and Scholarship
2:00pm
Kinsey Institute Film Archive chair: Russell Sheaffer (IU)
Liana Zhou (Kinsey Institute)
the challenges of working with stag films
Joseph Slade (Ohio U) Stag Film Audiences and
Strictly Union (1919),
film transfer courtesy of Pro8mm
Eric Schaefer (Emerson College) William Mishkin
and The Orgy at Lil’s Place (1963)
3:45pm
Recontextualizing Bits and Pieces chair: Dan Streible
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
5:30pm Closing
Thoughts
6pm reception
+ dinner, IU Art Museum
featuring Skip’s 16mm Silent
Science Screening projected by Skip Elsheimer (A/V
Geeks)
8:30pm Finale: Music in Orphan Films in the Indiana University Cinema
Curated by Kelli Hix (singer/songwriter,
musician, and Curator of Moving Images at the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum)
Anne Wells (Chicago
Film Archives) Park Band (Hedman-Gray, Inc., ca. 1965) and “Close to
You” by The Carpenters (David Strutzel, 1971)
Andrea J. Kelley (IU) Hong
Kong Blues (Hoagy Carmichael, 1941) IU Archives of Traditional Music, 1941
Kelli Hix introduces
Kincaid, on Makin’ Music (WBIR-TV, Knoxville, 1983) from Tennessee Archive of the
Moving Image
and a home movie of Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, Hank
Williams, Jr., and other country music stars in Anderson, Indiana (1971)
Lylas (Nashville,
TN) providing musical accompaniment for Blanche’s Recital (Arthur H.
Smith, 1977), presented by Andy Uhrich (Center for Home Movies)
Caroline Rubens (Appalshop) George
Thompson: Street Cleaner (Mountain Community Television, Norton, Virginia, 1977)
Liz Coffey (Harvard
Film Archive) Honky Tonk Bud (Scott Laster, 1986)
Asia Harman (IU
Libraries Film Archive) Hoosier Promenade (Janet R. MacLean, IU
Audio-Visual Center, 1957)
Jake Austen (Roctober
Productions) Chic-A-Go-Go highlights (Chicago Access Network Television,
1996-2013)
Garden Gates (Bloomington,
IN) performing live to the oceanographic films Sea Creatures (1974) and Challenge
of the Oceans (1960), edited by Josephine McRobbie (IU)
Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin
Films) Anonymous Artists of America (Gordon Quinn and Jerry Temaner,
1970)
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)
Greg Pierce (The Orgone
Archive) Sonambients: The Sound Sculpture of Harry Bertoia (Jeffrey
Eger, 1971)
Kelli Hix home movie
of Hank Williams III (PSU Film and Video, 2011)
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Sep 20, 2013
Material Connection: IU + NYU = Orphan Film|Video|Digital
The program for NYU’s 2012 Orphan Film Symposium noted the biennial gathering had morphed into a “collaborative year-round research and preservation initiative,” and hinted: “Plans are afoot for the Midwest and Europe.” When Rachael Stoeltje, representing Indiana University Libraries Film Archive, stepped forward at the final screening to introduce Chucky Lou: Story of a Woodchuck (IU Audio-Visual Center, 1948) she also announced what we had confirmed with Jon Vickers at Indiana University Cinema and Greg Waller, IU professor in Department of Communication and Culture’s Film and Media Studies Program: Bloomington would host a special alternate-year version of the symposia in 2013. This being the first Orphan Film event not held on the East or West Coast, the nickname “Orphans Midwest” stuck. Our theme, materiality, emerged when we gathered on campus with four more orphanistas. Archivist Brian Graney, a veteran of several symposiums, was now at IU’s Black Film Center/Archive. IU PhD students Andy Uhrich, Noelle Griffis, and Russell Sheaffer were co-producers of the 2010 Orphan Film Symposium while earning master’s degrees at NYU Cinema Studies.
Materiality has become a keyword for the study and use of moving images. The physical characteristics of film, magnetic tape, and digital files help define our movie experiences. The logistics of media migration, preservation, projection, storage, and retrieval require us to understand moving images as objects, not just expressive works. Watching Chucky Lou at last year’s Orphan Film Symposium reminded us of this fact. When the last replacement bulb in the 16mm projector gave up the ghost midway through the show, we quickly switched to IU Libraries streaming video to enjoy the storied rodent. Both the old print and the new file were available only because the university has made a commitment to preserving its legacy materials.
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Sep 16, 2013
Fwd: orphanfims turned 1 today!
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