Preliminary program for Orphans 2014

Some (but not all) of the presentations expected at "Orphans 9" -- The Future of Obsolescence, March 30 through April 2, 2014.

Preview from University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A1750

outtakes from Josephine Baker Visit Volendam, Holland (Fox Movietone News, 1928), filmed by Dutch film pioneer George Debels.

Thomas Elsaesser On Obsolescence

filmmaker Bill Morrison premieres a new work derived from found Super 8s

Benedict Olgado (NFA Philippines) and Bill Brand (BB Optics) restoration of On My Way to India Consciousness, I Reached China (Henry Francia, 1968)

Ron Magliozzi and Peter Williamson (MoMA NYC) rushes from the unreleased Bert Williams film Picnic (Biograph, ca. 1916) 

Evan Meaney (U of South Carolina) Archival Encryption, Encoding, and Error as Narrative: de_ca/sia.py (digital video, work in progress)

Evan Meaney's glitch project de_ca/sia.py 

Doug Goodwin (Cal Arts) on Serios (Rebecca Baron, forthcoming), an  experimental documentary about the “thoughtographic” films & photos attributed to Ted Serios (1918-2006). Sneak preview screening, with Rebecca Baron.

Dennis Doros (Milestone Films) outtakes and ‘lost’ films of director Shirley Clarke

Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi presents the EYE restoration of East Is West (Constance Talmadge, 1922)

Ned Thanhouser introduces the newly-preserved Clarence Cheats at Croquet (Thanhouser Co., 1915) for the National Film Preservation Foundation. The first fruit of an NFPF repatriation project with EYE

Simona Monizza (EYE) abstract animated films by Maarten Visser, with new music by NYU Film Scoring Program

Susan Aasman et al.  (U of Groningen) reconstructing historical practices of home movie making

Filmmaker Frank Scheffer premieres a new work made from his never-released 1980 documentary footage of American Zoetrope people (Francis Ford Coppola, Wim Wenders, Scott Bartlett, et al.)

Giovanna Fossati (EYE) Restoring the Colors of Early Cinema

Andrea Krämer and Martin Koerber (Deutsche Kinemathek) Restoring Gasparcolor

Franziska Latell (Academy of Arts, Berlin) on the Werner Nekes Collection, and filmmaker and collector Werner Nekes on optical toys and precinema objects

Randy Haberkamp (AMPAS) new preservation from the Academy Film Archive

Dan Streible (NYU) restoring Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) at LOCCharles Musser (Yale U) presents Industry’s Disinherited (Unions Films, 1949)

Monika Supruniuk (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych) OKO: Polish amateur movie camera (1914)

Elżbieta Wysocka (Filmoteka Narodowa) Unused Polish Newsreels (1946-1990)

Heidi Rae Cooley (U of South Carolina) outtakes from The Augustas (Scott Nixon, ca. 1950s) -- including newfound footage shot in Augusta, Sicily.   

Ramesh Kumar (NYU) policy vs. practice of national film archives in the digital era

Reto Kromer (reto.ch) CBS EVR version of The 8mm Film: Its Emerging Role in Education (1966)

Yvonne Zimmermann (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Hans Richter’s Die Eroberung des Himmels (Conquest of the Sky) (1938) restored by Cinémathèque suisse

Juana Suárez: MIAP preservation exchange with Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano

Rob Byrne (San Francisco Silent Film Festival) Restoring The Last Edition (Emory Johnson, 1925)

Julia Noordegraaf (U of Amsterdam) restoring the Bart Vegter collection

Eef Masson (U of Amsterdam) on the obsolescence of archival knowledge

Alexandra Schneider and Wanda Strauven (U of Amsterdam) Children as Media Archaeologists

Karen Cariani (WGBH Archive), Mark G. Cooper (U of South Carolina), and Mark J. Williams (Dartmouth) on newsfilm collections and the Media Ecology Project

Nicola Mazzanti (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique), Géraldine Vooren (EYE legal counsel), and Thomas Christensen (Danish Film Institute) Copyright Reform and Orphan Works: FORWARD, EU Directive for an Audiovisual Orphan Works Registry, moderated by Howard Besser (NYU)

Albanian Cinema Project director Regina Longo with Thomas Logoreci (Marubi Academy of Film, Tirana) and Eriona Vyshka (Albanian Film Archive) screen clips from restorations of the feature films Nëntori i dytë (The Second November) (Viktor Gjika, 1982) and Tomka and His Friends (Xhanfise Keko, 1977), and the 16mm film KF-16 [Albanian dances from northwest and north regions] (Ramazan Bogdani, U of Tirana Folklore Institute, 1972), preserved by BB Optics with NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation students.

Eastern Bloc Amateur Films:

                       Maria Vinogradova (NYU) amateur film in the Soviet Union

            Chris Wahl (HFF Potsdam) work from Betriebsfilmstudio GDR

            Jiří Horníček (Czech National Film Archive) Czech amateur auteurs

            Ralf Forster (Filmmuseum Potsdam)  East German amateur films

from University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections:  35mm restoration of A Frontier Post (Fox, 1925) a never-released documentary short about the "buffalo soliders" of the U.S. 10th Cavalry

and Egyptian (Whirling Dervishes) Dancers (Fox Movietone News, 1928)  


Register to attend: click here. 

Early Registration is open for the 9th Orphan Film Symposium

Extraordinarily pleased to announce:

Early Registration is open for the 9th Orphan Film Symposium. The event takes place at EYE in Amsterdam, but organization and registration is handled, per usual, via NYU Cinema Studies.

Simply click here, which will take you to http://cinema.tisch.nyu.edu/object/orphanfilm.html.

Program updates coming regularly to this blog +  www.nyu.edu/orphafilm.



Here's the AMIA Conference edition of the Orphans 9 postcard, front and back.

 Extra credit if you can identify the work depicted in the photo within the image.
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Poster from Filmharmonia Duo's "Orlacs Hände" screening at Cornell U.

 

From Friend of the Show, DJ, Theremin artist, keyboardist, accompanist, showman, silent film expert, Musica Curiosa curator, touring musician, Rutgers U. lecturer . . . 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dennis James <muscur@gmail.com> 

In case you missed the poster from this U.S. debut Filmharmonia Duo screening:

DENNIS JAMES | ORGANIST | 

DIRECTOR of SILENT FILM CONCERTS & FILMHARMONIA

LECTURER, 

MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF ARTS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

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CONTACT:  CRYSTAL CITY MUSIC  |  PO BOX 786  |  CORNING, NY  14830 

PHONE  607-359-2622 (Toll Free- 855-326-4012)  |  

E-MAIL  MUSCUR@GMAIL.COM

Wikipedia bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_James_(musician) 

Oct. 27 = World Day for AV Heritage at Brooklyn Historical Society

Here's the program for Sunday's SURVEILLANCE, a World Day for Audiovisual Heritage event at the Brooklyn Historical Society (and its new theater!)

See also http://wdavh.tumblr.com


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Introduction by Julia Kim (NYU MIAP) and Jacob Nadal (Brooklyn Historical Society)


LES GIRLS (1980) 8 min. Directed by Beryl Sokoloff
Presenters: Crista Grauer with Rebecca Fraimow (Dance Heritage Coalition)

MAIN STREET, USA (1960) 15 min.
aka Small Town, aka Small Town Surveillance, aka Main Street, aka Small Town Espionage
National Archives and Records Administration
Presenter: Rachel Moskowitz, the Winthrop Group

[Archival material from Tibetan Envoy Mission] (1979-80) 12 min.
Presenter: Tenzin Phuntsog, Director, Tibet Film Archive

JOE DiMAGGIO 1, 2, 3 (1991) 11 min.
Directed by Ann McGuire; Courtesy of Video Data Bank
Introduced by Dan Streible

[Patrol Car Video] (2011) 12 min.
Presenter: Snowden Becker (UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies, Program Manager)

LIBYA, BLOODY VENGEANCE IN SIRTE (2012) 6 min.
Presenter:  Nicole Martin, Multimedia Archivist and Systems Manager, Human Rights Watch

COMINGS AND GOINGS (1979/2009) 10 min. excerpt
Presenter: artist Peter d'Agostino (Temple University)

Let There Be Light: A Celebration of Moving Image Preservation

in honor of Robert Sklar 

Bob Sklar (2010)                                                                                John Huston (1946)

Let There Be Light: 

A Celebration of Moving Image Preservation

1:00 pm, Saturday, October 19, 2013

Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor

Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts

RSVP:  cinemastudiesevents@gmail.com


1:00 pm  Welcome, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean, Tisch School of the Arts


Announcement of the Sklar Scholarships: Richard Allen, Chair, NYU Cinema Studies

Remarks on Robert Sklar and Let There Be Light:  Dr. Adrienne Harris

MIAP at 10: Howard Besser, Director

“The Preservation and Digital Restoration of Let There Be Light”  
Criss Kovac (National Archives and Records Administration)

2:00 pm screening: Let There Be Light (John Huston, 1946) 58 min.

(followed by coffee break)

4:00-6:00 pm Reflections on Let There Be Light



chair: Chris Straayer 

“Introducing Huston and his Wartime Work" 

Dana Polan (NYU Cinema Studies)

“Undesirable: Rehabilitating Soldiers in the Post-World War II Moment”

Hannah Zeavin (NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication)



“Paralysis and Logorrhea, Observation and Reenactment: Let There Be Light and Its Orphaned Opposite(s)”

Noah Tsika (Queens College CUNY)

“Play It Again”

Jonathan Kahana (UC Santa Cruz, Center for Documentary Arts and Research)




 

Orphans Midwest Proofs

 

Left: A/V Geeks 16 mil projection (IU Art Museum reception).       Right:  Mona Jimenez talks ETC. 

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"Orphans Midwest" was a hit! 

Proof here.

 

 Cinema Studies | MIAP

thanks the coalition at

Indiana University 

Cinema  |  Libraries  |  Film Archive  |  Media School 

for a stimulating symposium on Materiality and the Moving Image.


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COMING SOON from IU Cinema: 

Orphans Midwest:  The DCP!

Orphans Midwest: "A hit!" raves the Bloomington Herald-Telephone

The morning after, iis difficult to articulate the insights, serendipities, and pleasures. But safe to say "Orphans Midwest" -- our film symposium devoted to Materialtu and the Moving Image -- was a big success.

More news about that in the near future.  

For now: a couple of photos.  

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Mona Jimenez (NYU MIAP) touches the podium screen that previews her slides documenting early video synthesizers and other instruments.  

Andy Uhrich (Indiana U) gave an amazing presentation highlighted by his compilation reel of 16mm films from The Film Group (prints from Chicago Film Archives). Mind-blowing alternation between some of the Film Group's TV ads (for Blue Cross, Aunt Jemima, Kentucky Fried Chicken) and its documentary work from the same period (Cicero March, The Murder of Fred Hampton -- !).  "We need each other" as both insurance company slogan and political rhetoric. 

Eric Schaefer puts the rediscovery of a print of The Orgy at Lil's Place (William Mishkin Motion Pictures, 1963) into historical-industrial context of sexploitation.