April 7 - 10, 2010
Wednesday, April 7 8:00 pm Orphan film ist. George Willeman (Library of Congress) and Bill Morrison silent excerpts from the John Maddox Collection, Ed Pastorini piano [The Janitor] (ca. 1930) Kinsey Institute film archive: Historical Stag Film ist. a Girl & a Gun (2009) with filmmaker Gustav Deutsch 10:00 am Repatriation
Mike Mashon (Library of Congress) moderator 11:15 am Coffee & Tea Break 11:30 am Film Connection Australia-America; or, How American Films Got to Oz and Back
Annette Melville (National Film Preservation Foundation) Richard Abel (U of Michigan) Mutt & Jeff: On Strike (1920) Buckey Grimm [unidentified U.S. Navy documentary] (1915?) Marty Marks (MIT) piano 1:00 pm lunch GBC Audiovisual Library Fire (1989/2009) Jennifer Blaylock (NYU MIAP) Reproducing History: Colonial Discourses and Digital Silences in African Audiovisual Archives Ishumael Zinyengere (UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) Colonial Films from the National Archives of Zimbabwe: The Case of Tickey 3:30 pm Coffee & Tea Break
Dan Streible (NYU) The APEX Buenos Aires Project Paula Félix-Didier (Museo del Cine Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken) [The “Cordobazo” uprising] (Sucesos Argentinos, 1969) Cinepa animation (1950s) + Highlights from the Manuel Peña Rodríguez Collection Rebecca Baron & Douglas Goodwin (CalArts)
Lossless, Nos. 1-5 (2009)
6:00 pm Dinner at Chelsea Brewing Co. (59 Chelsea Piers) 8:00 pm Norman McLaren’s Hen Hop (1942/49, National Film Board of Canada) Helen Hill’s Scratch and Crow (1995) Danielle Ash’s Pigeon Dance (2007) Susan Courtney & Laura Kissel (University of South Carolina) present the Helen Hill Award to Jodie Mack Yard Work Is Hard Work (2008) Danielle Ash Pickles for Nickels (2009) Becky Lewis introduces an excerpt from The Florestine Collection (2010), a film by Helen Hill completed by Paul Gailiunas Friday, April 99:15 am Silent Circuits Prelude: Origin of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (Edison, 1909) piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin Matthew Solomon (CUNY Staten Island) Reaching the Whole World, 1896-2010: The Global Circulation of Star-Films. Rip’s Dream (La lègende de Rip Van Winkle, Georges Méliès, 1905) piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin
Nancy Watrous (Chicago Film Archives), Judith Miller (Valparaiso U), Andy Uhrich (NYU, MIAP): The Story of A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha (Katharine Ertz-Bowden and Charles Bowden, 1904) Scott Simmon (UC Davis) Reenacting the Revolution: Sheriff Eugene Buck’s Forgotten Docudrama Ammunition Smuggling on the Mexican Border (1914) piano accompaniment by Marty Marks 11:30 am BREAK 11:45 am Asian Fragments (from China, Italy, Russia, Georgia, and South Carolina ) Sergei Kapterev (Moscow Research Institute of Film Art) Rediscovering Kalatozov's First Film Their Kingdom (Mikheil Kalatozishvili and Nutsa Gogoberidze, 1928) [Aftermath of Japanese Attack on Shanghai] (unid., 1937?) with remarks by Greg Wilsbacher (USC MIRC) [Chinese Motion Picture Studio] (Fox Movietone News, 1934) Preservation by Colorlab Zhang Zhen (NYU) Hou Yao's Shadowplay A Poet from the Sea (China Sun Motion Picture Co., 1927) piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin 1:00 pm lunch 2:15 pm Moving the Underground Above Ground Sears Sox (1968) by Pat O’Neill, Neon Park, and Chick StrandBill Brand (BB Optics) and Andrea Callard Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive), GO OH WOW: Unexpected Discoveries in the Excavation of the L.A. Avant-Garde The Films of Chris Langdon, 1972-1976 Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives) Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (Manuel DeLanda, 1980) Jeff Lambert (NFPF) moderator 3:45 PM BREAK 4:00 pm Women Amateur Filmmakers Travel
Kathy Dudding (Fulbright Fellow; New Zealand)Tracing the Flâneuse: New Zealand/Aotearoa Melissa Dollman (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) Margaret Cook Thomson’s Home Movies of Ginling College, China (1930-38) Kimberly Tarr (Smithsonian Institution) 'Round the World and Back Again: An Examination of the Adelaide Pearson Travel Films (1931-1940) Mark G. Cooper (USC Moving Image Research Collections) Claudia Lea Phelps' Laconia Reel (1923): Japan, Formosa, the Phillippines, India, Egypt (Preservation by Colorlab) (Still from 'Personal Record: Lucy Mills. [Skating 1930-32])
5:30 pm BREAK 5:45 pm
Marsha Orgeron and Devin Orgeron (The Moving Image) introduce Charles Musser (Yale U): Investigating The Investigators (Union Films, 1948) 6:10 pm DINNER BREAK (On your own)
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The 7th Orphan Film Symposium: Moving Pictures Around the World
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