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RADICALS: a special edition of the NYU Orphan Film Symposium
at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, June 6-8, 2019
Thursday, June 6
15:00 to 21:00 Registration at Filmmuseum (Augustinerstraße 1)
19:00 Movements, a program in the film series “There are no rules!” Restored and Revisited Avant-Garde Films from the Netherlands.
Introduced by curator Simona Monizza (EYE Netherlands Film Museum)
20:30 Symposium reception party at Filmmuseum lobby and bar
21:30 Film Program 0
• A Few Drunkards at the Mars Bar (Masha Godovannaya, US, 2001, 1 min) Introduced by Masha Godovannaya as homage to Jonas Mekas.
• tx-reverse (Martin Reinhart & Virgil Widrich, Austria, 2018, 5 min) Introduced by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich.
Friday, June 7
8:30 Registration opens at Filmmuseum (coffee & croissant discount offer)
9:30 Welcome and opening remarks
Michael Loebenstein (Austrian Film Museum), Dan Streible (NYU Cinema Studies)
Why Radicals?
10:00 Session 1
Grazia Ingravalle (Brunel University London) British or Indian Colonial Film Heritage? Towards a Decolonization of Film Archiving and Curation •
• Panorama of Calcutta, India, from the River Ganges (Warwick Trading Co., UK, 1899, 35mm, 2 min)
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Kaveh Askari (Michigan State University) & Hadi Gharabaghi (New York University) MSU and National Iranian Radio and Television’s Iran Film Series: Ancient Iran: Part 2, 3000-800 BC (Margaret Mehring and Mohammad Ali Issari, US/Iran, 1977)
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 Session 2
Brian Meacham (Yale Film Study Center) & Josh Morton (filmmaker) Radical Theater: The Black Panthers, New Haven, and Puppet Show (Josh Morton, US, 1970, 16mm, 9 min)
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Kimberly Tarr (NYU Libraries) Angela Davis Report (DDR, 1972, 16mm, 19 min) new preservation from the Communist Party of the United States of America Collection at NYU Tamiment Library
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Session 3
Thomas Christensen & Katrine Madsbjerg (Danish Film Institute) Unidentified International Socialists, or: How Uncle Sam Traveled from Vienna to Copenhagen: Onkel Sams Wienerrejse (Uncle Sam’s Trip to Vienna, Austria, 1931)
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Enrique Fibla-Gutierrez (Filmoteca de Catalunya) & Pablo La Parra-Pérez (Elías Querejeta Film School) The Wretched of the Spanish Earth: Fragments from Spanish Radical Film Archives, 1930s-1970s
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David Landolf & Brigitte Paulowitz (Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern) Amateur Filmmaking for a Greater Cause: René Betge’s Propaganda for the Lebensreform Movement “die neue zeit,” 1929-1939
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Session 4
Tania López Espinal (Cineteca Nacional México) “Viva Cristo Rey!”: Manuel Ramos, 9.5mm Films, and the Cristero War, 1926-1929
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José Miguel Palacios (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago) & Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto (San Francisco State University) Redefining Political Cinemas in Exile: Chilean Filmmakers After 1973
• Pinochet: asesino, fascista, traidor, agente del imperialismo (Sergio Castilla, Sweden, 1974, 16mm, 5 min) print courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute
• La femme au foyer (The Housewife; Valeria Sarmiento, France, 1976, 23 min) courtesy of Groupe de Recherches et d’Essais Cinématographiques
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Léa Morin (L’Atelier de l’Observatoire, Casablanca) An Unknown Moroccan Cinema: Mostafa Derkaoui’s Student Films in Poland, 1969-1971
• Ludzie z piwnicy (People from the Vault, 1969, excerpt)
• Gdzieś, pewnego dnia (A Day Somewhere, 1971, 35mm, 20 min)
18:00 Conference dinner at Al Caminetto da Mario (Krugerstraße 4)
20:00 Film Program 1 (open to public)
• The Black and the Green (St. Clair Bourne, US, 1983, 16mm, 45 min)
Presented by Judith Bourne & Jacob Perlin (Metrograph, NYC)
Saturday, June 8
8:30 Registration opens at Filmmuseum (coffee & croissant discount offer)
9:30 Session 5
Stefanie Zingl (Austrian Film Museum / Ludwig Boltzmann Institute) The Sensation of Color: Mroz short-lived 9.5mm Color Film
Testfilm (Josef Mroz, Austria, 1930, 2 min)
Farbenfilmversuche (Color film tests; Josip Sliškovič, Austria, 1931-32, 5 min)
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Giorgio Trumpy, Josephine Diecke, David Pfluger, & Barbara Flueckiger (University of Zurich) Reconsidering Rigid Procedures of Color Film Digitization: Case Studies in Toning, Lenticular Processes, Chromogenic Stocks, and Mroz-Farbenfilm
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Sandra Ladwig (University of Applied Arts Vienna) The Amateur’s Provocation of Perception: René Tajoburg’s Irrsinn rot weiss gelb (Frenzy in Red, White, Yellow; Austria, ca. 1970, 6 min)
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Session 6
Rommy Albers, Simona Monizza (EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam) & Floris Paalmen (University of Amsterdam) Cineclub Amsterdam Freedom Films at the International Institute of Social History
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Mara Mattuschka & Hans Werner Poschauko (Maria Lassnig Foundation, Vienna) Maria Lassnig’s Films in Progress: An Artist’s Approach to Restoring Unfinished Works
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Session 7
Hieyoon Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Toward a New Cinema: The Seoul Film Collective and Film Activism in the 1980s, excerpts from Pannori Arirang (1982) and Surise (South Korea, 1984)
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Eva Näripea (National Archives of Estonia / Estonian Academy of Arts) & Hardi Volmer (Nukufilm) Päratrust [Butt Trust] Heritage
• Kalkar (Estonia, USSR, 1980, 11 min) a punk satire of Tarkovsky’s Stalker
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Masha Godovannaya (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) Silent Horizon: Evgeny Yufit and Early Necrorealist Cinema
• Lesorub (Woodcutter, USSR, 1985, 35mm, 8 min)
• Vesna (Spring, USSR, 1987, 35mm, 10 min)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Session 8
Joachim Schätz (University of Vienna) Avant-garde Mimicry
• Mit unbekanntem Ziel (Destination Unknown; Austrian Chamber of Commerce & Institute for the Promotion of Trade, Austria, 1963, 35mm, 23 min)
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Martin Reinhart (University of Applied Arts Vienna) The Data Loam Project: Challenging the Dystopia of the “Information Age”
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Tara Merenda Nelson (Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY) Radical Collaboration: Robert Frank in Rochester
17:00 Session 9: Open discussion about Radicals
18:00 Dinner break
20:00 Film Program 2 (open to public)
• Tsaar Muhha (Tsar of the Flies; Estonia, USSR, 1981, 3 min) Introduced by Eva Näripea.
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• Premiere screening of a 1930s nitrate iteration of Hans Richter’s Every Day (UK, 1929, 16 min) Introduced by Caroline Fournier (Cinémathèque Suisse).
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• About Us (Robert Frank & VSW students, US, 1972, 16mm, 38 min) Introduced by Tara Merenda Nelson.
21:30 Closing party at Filmmuseum lobby and bar
- All silent screenings will be accompanied by Filmmuseum’s resident pianist Elaine Loebenstein.
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