The live webcast signal was interrupted, but you can watch the replay in two parts. Watch before the stream ends on June 1 (11:59 pm).
Friday May 29 2:00pm
Never Lost But Found in the Ocean: On Biographies of Film Copies
Occasionally lost films are found. There are also found films never known to have been lost. Such is the story of four rolls of 35mm film caught in fishermen’s nets near the shores of Iceland in summer 2016. Badly damaged, yet in a remarkably viewable condition, they were identified as parts of a once-popular Soviet comedy, Village Detective (dir. Ivan Lukinsky, 1969) whose original negative is preserved at Gosfilmofond of Russia. This discovery is the subject of the forthcoming film by Bill Morrison, The Village Detective (2020), a poetic reflection on the ways in which biographies of film prints are interwoven with biographies of human individuals, real and fictional, as well as broader historical events and their mediations through cinema.
In anticipation of the film’s release our virtual roundtable brings together four perspectives on the significance of film copies, found objects, and ocean as an unlikely repository of films.
Bill Morrison, filmmaker; Peter Bagrov (George Eastman Museum); Joan Neuberger (UT Austin); Maria Vinogradova (NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia)
moderated by Marina Hassapopoulou (NYU Cinema Studies)
Part 1
Part 2
https://vimeo.com/424136070
Part 2 concludes with the BON VOYAGE film from Deutsches Filminstitut and Filmmuseum, An Atlantic Voyage (19??).