Streaming now: an HD recording of the opening night’s live stream. 141 min.
May 26, 2020: Keeping with the Orphan Film Symposium custom, evening sessions were devoted to longer films and shorter talks. For this Water Tuesday set, five films played in full, each with significant introduction and discussion. Four are replayed here. The spoken introduction to Samba Félix Ndiaye’s Aqua (Senegal, 1989) is also included, as the preservation of that film is now underway.
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For permission to stream these films we owe gratitude to:
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American Heritage and Culture, for its preservation of The Case of the Fishermen (1947), gracias to archivist Blake McDowell. NMAAHC will be adding this film to its online collection, alongside the Union Films productions already streaming there — A People’s Convention (15 min.) and Count Us In (10 min.), both from 1948.
NYU Special Collections, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives, as well as the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department, Media Preservation Unit, for scanning and subtitling Let’s Get Acquainted: Episode 11, The Birthday (Kyiv Popular Science Film Studio, USSR, ca. 1972) from the Communist Party of the United States of American Records. Спасибо / spasibo / thanks: Kimberly Tarr, Michael Grant, Ben Moskowitz, Alla Roylance.
Filmmakers Scott K. Foley and Eiren Caffall for Becoming Ocean (2018).
Nine Ndiaye for permission to show Samba Félix Ndiaye’s Aqua (1989), and BB Optics and the Cultural Service of the French Embassy; merci Bill Brand and Amélie Garin-Davet.
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive for scanning The Ways of Water, provided with permission from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (c)1971 by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Thanks Rachael Stoeltje, Carmel Curtis, and Andy Uhrich.