Registration Is Open! Here’s a preview of the films and speakers.

Here’s list of films and presenters slated for the 11th Orphan Film Symposium, April 11-14, 2018. It’s about LOVE. Final scheduled coming very soon.

Events begin Wednesday, April 11, with a 7pm reception for registrants and an 8pm screening. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: begin with panels at 9:30am; lunch and coffee breaks; panels end at 6pm. After dinner breaks, 8pm screenings each night.

Registration is open! And open to all.

Join us at Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NYC. Click here to register.

Galería Cinematográfica Infantil (ca. 1927)
Courtesy: Museo del Cine

Love:

Frontispiece: Fox Movietone News outtakes [Dr. Fritz] Wittels on This Thing Called Love (1929) from U of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections

Carolina Cappa (Museo del Cine de Buenos Aires) Films from La Pampa: Domingo Filippini’s Galería Cinematográfica Infantil (Argentina, ca. 1927)

Keynote Jennifer Peterson (Woodbury U) Love, Loss, and Climate Change: Watching the Historical Nature Film Today (with newly scanned 16mm films from the David Shepard Collection, Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive, University of Southern California)

Roni Grosz Albert Einstein Archive, Hebrew U) & Becca Bender (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts / NYU MIAP) Elsa and Albert Einstein in Hollywood (1931) and the Leopold Godowsky Jr. Collection
Karen Falk (The Jim Henson Company) & Craig Shemin (The Jim Henson Legacy) The Early Films of Jim Henson

An Amateur League of Nations, A Database
Charles Tepperman (University of Calgary) Příběh vojáka (A Soldier’s Story; Čeněk Zahradníček & Vladimír Šmejkal, 1934) and the 1938 International Amateur Movie Show
Alexander Stark (Philipps University, Marburg) “Help us help!”: German Postwar Charity Films by Elisabeth Wilms. Schaffende in Not (Working People in Trouble, 1948)
Eva Näripea (National Archives of Estonia) Forbidden[?] Love Behind the Iron Curtain: Peeter Tooming’s Sentimentaalne novell (A Sentimental Short Story, 1966)
Tzutzumatzin Soto (Cineteca Nacional México) Love at the (Permanent) Time of Political Repression in Mexico: Hare Krishna (Alfredo Gurrola, 1973)

Something Good
Allyson Nadia Field (U of Chicago) & Dino Everett (U of Southern California) Something Good: A Rediscovered Negro Kiss (1898-99)
Terri Francis (Indiana U Black Film Center/Archive), Charlene Regester (UNC), & Lina Accurso (Alice B. Russell Micheaux Headstone Project) Looking for Alice: Love as Film Studies Methodology
Ina Archer (National Museum of African American History and Culture) “Someone to Watch Over Me”: Newly Preserved Films, Discs, and Tapes from the NMAAHC Collection and the Great Migration Public Digitization Initiative (See and hear Cab Calloway, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Ella Fitzgerald, and Kreisler’s Bandstand.)

Hate and Love in Silent Cinema
Andrés Levinson (Museo del Cine) with Erica Lopez and Shahed Dowlatshahi (MIAP) Premiere of the Rediscovered William S. Hart Western La Fiera Domada (Ideal Film, 1916/1923?)
Chen Biqiang (China Film Archive) & Zhang Zhen (NYU Asian Film and Media Initiative) Laogong zhi aiqing (Laborer’s Love, aka Romance of a Fruit Peddler, 1922) The U.S. premiere screening of China Film Archive’s restoration of Zhang Shichuan’s comedy, the oldest surviving Chinese film.
Marsha Gordon (NCSU) & Buckey Grimm (independent) A Love Letter to Herself: Camera-Woman Angela Murray Gibson Films Herself into History, 1921-1925

The Subject Is Sex
Barbara Miller (MoMI) The Variety Photo Plays Theater Collection of Posters for X-rated Movies, 1965-1983
Oliver Gaycken (U of Maryland) & Sarah Eilers (National Library of Medicine) Love Doctors and Medical Media: Training Films for Physicians and Psychologists Providing Counseling for Sexual Dysfunction

Matt Soar (Concordia U) Love Film Leaders, a compilation (2018)
Danielle Ash premieres her 70mm Love in Dimension 150 (2018)

Helen Hill Award presented to filmmaker Nazlı Dinçel
A 16mm film program of her works including Her Silent Seaming (2014), Solitary Acts #4, 5, & 6 (2015), Shape of a Surface (2017), Between Relating and Use (2018);+ the instructional film Sharing Orgasm: Communicating Your Sexual Response (Lin Yeiser, 1977)
Susan Courtney (U of South Carolina) moderator

The Center for Home Movies presents
Dwight Swanson (CHM) moderator, [unid. wedding film] (Mexico, 19??)
Rob Anen (Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island) The 35mm Home Movies of John S. Phipps, 1916-1930
Louisa Trott (U of Tennessee) Self-fascination in Walther Barth’s Home Movies, including Fee (Germany, 1929) and newly scanned (by NYU MIAP) 16mm prints from Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound
Matt Malzkuhn (Gallaudet U) & Ted Supalla (Georgetown U) Sign Language in Home Movies

Technophilia
John Froats (collector) Computer Rendering on 16mm: A. Michael Noll at Bell Labs, Patterns (1964-65)
Kathleen Maguire (The Exploratorium) Ivan Dryer’s Laserium and Laserimage (1972)
Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago) & Candace Ming (South Side Home Movie Project) Robert Patton Filmed Helicopters in Super 8 (1969-1970s)
Simon Tarr & Evan Meaney (U of South Carolina) VRchive : Finding Archival Moving Images with Tactile Technology
Walter Forsberg (Laboratorio Experimental de Cine – CDMX) moderator

Patriotism and World Citizenship
Mila Turajlic (filmmaker, Belgrade/Paris) Tito’s Cinematographer Stevan Labudović (1926-2017), Yugoslav Newsreels, and the Non-Aligned Movement in Algeria, Angola, and Mozambique

From Brazil with Love
Rafael de Luna (Federal Fluminense U, Brazil) A 9.5mm film of the Rio beach resorts: Balneario da Urca (Brazil, ca. 1933) from the Collection of LUPA-UFF
Beatriz Rodovalho (U Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3) & José Quental (U Paris 8) Family Films from the Alberto Sampaio Collection (1920-1930), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Paola Prestes Penney (U of São Paolo) Fifty Years of Partnership: Dance Films from the Herbert and Maria Duchesnes Collection (1943-1990)

Small-gauge Loves
Isabel Wschebor Pellegrino (U de la República, Montevideo) Rescuing the Science Film Comportamiento Sexual y Reproducción de Bothriurus Bonariensis (Plácido Añón, Uruguay, 1959)
Juana Suárez (NYU APEX) moderator

Amateur Collectors and Collections
Brigitte Paulowitz (Lichtspiel / Kinemathek, Bern) The Richard Ernst Collection of 17.5mm and 35mm Family Films, 1914-1932
Brian Meacham (Yale U) The “Cynniewink” Sets Sail: The Films of S.W. and Cynthia Childs — I’d Be Delighted To! (1932)
May Haduong & Sean Savage (Academy Film Archive) Together Un/Known: Archival Ethics and the Case of Acquisition 6130

Liz Czach (U of Alberta) “The Girls,” Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield: Trailblazers of Travel Lecture Filmmaking,1959-1979
Ting-Wu Cho (NYU) Screen Representations of Taiwanese Aborigines: Wild Men of Formosa (US, 1921), Going South to Taiwan (Japan, 1937), and Happenings in Ali Shan (China, 1949)

XFR Collective (Marie Lascu, Michael Grant, & Brendan Allen) New Video Rescues from the Surry (Maine) Arts at the Barn, 1986-88 (and the Leningrad Amateur Opera Company)

Archival Education about Orphan Works
Howard Besser (NYU MIAP) moderator
Dimitrios Latsis, Isaac Prusky (Ryerson U)

Comparing editions of Three American Beauties (Edison, 1906) from Museum of Modern Art, Library of Congress, and National Library of Norway + Frank Roumen (EYE) Buona Sera Fiori! (1909)

Saturday, 4:30pm — Tribute to Stephen Parr and His Oddball Films and Videos
Programmed by Skip Elsheimer, Andrew Lampert, Regina Longo, Greg Pierce, Genevieve Havemeyer-King, Antonella Bonfanti, & Jeff Lambert
including
Albanian animation Koha e Dashurisë së Akrepave (The Lovetime of Scorpions, 2003) by Ergys Faja & Bertrand Shijaku;
I Reminisce (Veronica Majano, 2004)

Saturday, 8:00pm Closing screening with a variety of short films,
including
Courtney Stephens (Veggie Cloud LA) Mating Games (2018, with KJ Relth), featuring Russell M. Saunders films of Muscle Beach, 1954-1963
Jeff Lambert (NFPF) & Frank Roumen (EYE) introduce the premiere of the newly-preserved Cupid in Quarantine (1918)
Todd Wiener (UCLA Film & Television Archive) introducing recent restorations from the UCLA Film & Television Archive, including Nikolai Ursin’s Behind Every Good Man . . . (ca. 1967) +
a big surprise finale film TBA (but not to be missed!)

Moderators and respondents include Alia Ayman (Zawya Cinema, Cairo), Anna McCarthy (NYU), Charles Musser (Yale), Tami Williams (UW Milwaukee and Domitor), and Michael Loebenstein (Austrian Filmmuseum).