Here’s a remarkable presentation at the NYU Orphan Film Symposium on Counter-Archives, recorded June 16, 2022, at Concordia University. It centers on a rediscovered and restored nonfiction film (a sponsored film, a travelogue, a newsreel production, an ethnographic film), fraught with colonialist rhetoric and ideological baggage — yet redeemed, or
Watch: Nasty Women teaser
“At last the day has came.” So says Frau Leuchtag to her fellow refugee Carl, headwaiter at Rick’s Café Américain in the film classic Casablanca (1942). The day they celebrate is a departure to America. Today’s celebration is the long-anticipated Kino Lorber release of the four-disc box set Cinema’s First
Watch: A Call to Emancipation
“A Call to Emancipation: Liberating Discourses in Mexican and Spanish Student Films of the 1950s.” Recorded at Concordia University, June 17, 2022. These were the first two of three presentations for an Orphan Film Symposium session called Cine útil (a nod to the 2011 anthology Useful Cinema, edited by our hosts
Watch: Incarcerated Youth and the Otisville Film Club, 1969-1972
Here’s the NYU Orphan Film Symposium session entitled “. . . and its Discontents,” parts 1 and 3 of 3. Recorded June 17, 2022, at Concordia University. 37 minutes. DeeDee Halleck (UC San Diego emerita) and Henning Engelke (Philipps U Marburg), Incarcerated Youth: The Otisville Film Club, 1969-1972, with screening
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Watch Esdras Baptista films from LUPA
Rafael de Luna Freire (Universidade Federal Fluminense) Cinematographer Esdras Baptista’s Film Collection (1940s-80s): Rediscovering a Brazilian Communist Filmmaker; music performed live by Landscape of Hate (Vivek Venkatesh & Jessie Beier) Professor de Luna presents research and new film digitization work conducted with Laura Batitucci at LUPA, Laboratório Universitário de Preservação
Watch Reanimating Histories 3 (Kelly Gallagher)
Recorded June 16, 2022, in the de Sève Cinema, Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. Part 3 of 3. The culmination of the Reanimating Histories session was the tradition of “Helen Hill night.” Kelly Gallagher receives the OFS Helen Hill Award and Kodak grant. Symposium co-founders Susan Courtney (U of South Carolina)
Watch Reanimating Histories 2 (Phil Hoffman)
Since 2008, each NYU symposium recognizes an independent filmmaker with its Helen Hill Award, given to media artists who share the spirit of the late experimental animator’s work and values. On this occasion, awardee Kelly Gallagher agreed we should show a Helen Hill film. We selected one of her films
Watch Reanimating Histories 1 (Bill Morrison)
Recorded June 16, 2022. Here’s the opening segment of the Orphans 2022 program “Reanimating Histories,” which was built around filmmaker Kelly Gallagher receiving the Orphan Film Symposium’s biennial Helen Hill Award. First, Bill Morrison was to introduce his recent film Buried News. Pairing his work with
Watch Malcolm X press conference (1962)
Session 5 of 16 at Orphans 2022: Counter-Archives was entitled “Black is . . . ?” Here’s a video recording of the second of three presentations on this panel. Recorded at the de Sève Cinema, Concordia University, June 16, 2022. The full symposium program listing is here. Mark Quigley (UCLA
Watch “Photographed By Willie P. Jackson”
From Session 5 of 16 — Black is …? — at Orphans 2022: Counter-Archives, Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. The first three presentations on this panel. The symposium program listing is here. Dr. Teddy Reeves & Ina D. Archer (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) “Photographed By
Watch Vulnerable Media Lab & Sara Gómez
Opening remarks (3′) on Counter-Archives by Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia U) were followed by the first of two presentations in Session 2 of 16 — Black Atlantic/Black Pacific: Archives, Restitution, Activism. This opening morning presentation followed the opening night screening of Iré a Santiago (Sara Gómez, ICAIC, Cuba, 1964). Susan
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María Fernanda Carrillo Sánchez (U Autónoma de la Ciudad de México) & Isabel Restrepo Jaramillo (U Nacional de Colombia, Medellín) Magnetic Bojayá: Audiovisual Memories of the Atrato and Colombian Pacific Archive (1994-2008) Juana Suárez (NYU) moderator / translator From Session 2 of 16 — Black Atlantic/Black Pacific: Archives, Restitution, Activism