Orphans 2022 – Speakers, Presentations, Screenings

UPDATE (May 10, 2022): The full Program and Schedule is now here.

We are happy to announce this slate of speakers, presentations, and screenings for the Orphans 2022 Counter-Archives. Registration is open (to all!) for the June 15-18 event at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. Limited to 160 seats.

Yes, the symposium is greenlit for an in-person gathering! Most of the speakers will be together in the theater, with a few presenting via video link. (Schedule of themed sessions forthcoming.) The symposium begins on the evening of Wednesday, June 15, followed by three days and nights of presentations and screenings. All from the de Sève Cinema on the Sir George Williams (downtown) campus of Concordia University.

Confirmed presenters:

Denise Khor (U Mass Boston) Recovery and Archival Absence in The Oath of the Sword (Japanese American Film Co., 1914)
Melissa Dollman (Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project), Rhiannon Sorrell (Diné College), and Michael Parrish (Diné College) with Jennifer Jenkins (U of Arizona) Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project: A Diné Response to the Sponsored Educational Film The Navajo Moves into the Electronic Age (1965)
Laura Horak (Carleton U) & Maggie Hennefeld (U of Minnesota) Screening Cinema’s First Nasty Women (1909-1914) including Léontine, Red Wing, and others
Madison Brown (Northwestern U) Complicating “Home” in Home Movies from Lac La Ronge Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan (Rev. George W. Fisher, 1930s)
Patricia R. Zimmermann (Ithaca College), Louis Massiah (Scribe Video Center), & Carmel Curtis (XFR Collective) We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media
Bleakley McDowell, Ina Archer, & CK Ming (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) New Film Preservation from NMAAHC, including Willie P. Jackson films and Lebert “Sandy” Bethune’s Pan Africa (1971)
Rhea L. Combs (National Portrait Gallery) The Chariot is Coming: Robert Goodwin’s Black Chariot (1971)
Susan Lord, Jenn Norton, Brandon Hocura, Michelle O’Halloran, & Sylvia Nowak (Queen’s University) Apparitions: Vulnerable Media Lab Projects and the Case of Sara Gómez
Lisa Uyeda & Jeffery Chong (Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Burnaby, BC) The Tomojiro Inouye Family Collection of Films (Canada, ca. 1940-47)
Joseph Clark (Simon Fraser U) with members of Kwakiutl First Nation The Ethnographic Films of George Hunt. Totem Land (Associated Screen News, J. Booth Scott and Terry Ramsaye, 1927) and “Kwakiutl Film and Audio Recordings with Franz Boas, 1930”
Moving Image Research Collections (U of South Carolina) Franz Boas on Human Capabilities – outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1928)
Luna Hupperetz (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Floris Paalman (U of Amsterdam), Nadia Tilon, and members of LOSON (National Organisation of Surinamese in the Netherlands) Restoring Women of Suriname: Oema foe Sranan / Vrouwen van Suriname (1978, Van Praag; Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms & LOSON)
María Fernanda Carrillo Sánchez (Autonomous U of Mexico City) & Isabel Restrepo Jaramillo (National U of Colombia) Magnetic Bojayá: Audiovisual Archives and Collective Memory. excerpts from Archive of Atrato and Pacific, 1994-2008
Louis Pelletier (U of Montreal) Sponsored Films, Lecturers, and Northern Canadian Audiences in the 1920s. Première representation: Les deux fils de monsieur Dubois (Gordon Sparling, Canadian Forestry Association, 1928)
Bill Morrison (Hypnotic Pictures) Buried News (2021): Newsreels Documenting US Racial Divide (1917-1920)
David M.J. Wood (U Nacional Autónoma de México) & Sonia García López (U Carlos III de Madrid) A Call to Emancipation: Liberating Discourses in Mexican and Spanish Student Films of the 1950s. Eres libre (J. Ramiro Girón, Richard Kent Jones, and Alfonso Robles Landi; Mexico, 1951) and Quince minutos (María Elisa Corona, 1955)
Eric Dawson & John Morton (Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound) Melungeon Home Movies: An Intimate Look at a Minority Group in Rural Appalachia. Newly preserved: Vardy Community Footage (David Swartz, 1946-47)
Mark Quigley (UCLA Film and Television Archive) Malcolm X in Los Angeles: Social Justice Activism and Surveillance Television [Malcolm X press conference on deadly police raid in Los Angeles] (newsfilm via LAPD, 1962)
Liz Czach (U of Alberta) Repatriation and the Arctic Films of Betty and Lewis Rasmussen: Arctic Holiday (1948) and Arctic Journey (195?)
Stephanie Sapienza (U of Maryland) with Matt St. John & Eric Hoyt (U of Wisconsin – Madison) Voices of Discontent: Recovering a 1968 Detroit Audio Collection. Seeds of Discontent (1968)
Ryan Conrad (Carleton U) The Death of the Videomaker: Gay Men’s Orphaned AIDS Tapes of the 1980s/’90s
Josh Morton (Mayday Archive Project) & Brian Meacham (Yale Film Archive) Black Panther Counter Narrative, Breakfast (1970) and Charles Garry Interview [Huey Newton’s attorney] (1971)
Rafael de Luna Freire & Laura Batitucci (Fluminense Federal U) Esdras Baptista’s film collection (1940s-1980s): Rediscovering a Communist Filmmaker in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Mark Williams and Ayo Coly (Dartmouth College) & Aboubakar Sanogo (Carleton U) U.S. Archival Moving Images of Africa via the Media Ecology Project
Charles Tepperman (U of Alberta) & Masha Salazkina (Concordia U) Tracing the International Amateur Cinema Network in the 1930s: A World Tour. Screening: the restored Memmortigo? (Delmir de Caralt, Spain, 1933)
Tara Merenda Nelson (Visual Studies Workshop) Hidden Video History of Urban Renewal in Rochester. Linda and Brenda Benson Tape 1 (Nancy Rosin, 1978)
Annabelle Aventurin (Ciné-Archives, Paris) Med Hondo’s First Film: Ballade aux sources (Med Hondo & Bernard Nantet, 1965)
DeeDee Halleck (UC San Diego emerita) & Henning Engelke (Philipps U Marburg) Incarcerated Youth: The Otisville Film Club, 1969-1972. Screening A Madman’s World and The Bloody Crime Crusher
Lea Morin (TALITHA, Rennes) & Touda Bouanani (Rabat) Les Archives Bouanani. excerpts from first films of Mohamed Osfour (Morocco, 1940s-50s) and Petite histoire en marge du cinématographe (Ahmed Bouanani, 1974)
Rick Prelinger (UC Santa Cruz) Questions for Archives, a discussion

The above will be placed into thematic panels like these two:

Global Histories of Radical Worker Films
• Tanya Goldman (Sarah Lawrence College) Communist Party USA compilation (ca. 1931-1950s)
• Dino Everett (USC) San Pedro Demonstration (Los Angeles Film and Photo League, 1934)
• Diane Wei Lewis (Washington U) Prokino Sakuhin-shū (Japan, 1929-1932)
• Bjørn Sørenssen (NTNU) Norwegian workers film footage (1930s)

Making Counter-Archives through IBPOC Histories: 4 A/CA Artists in Residence
• Jennifer Dysart, Keewatin: Identifying Families in Keewatin Missions Films at Library and Archives Canada
• Nadine Valcin, Origines: Claude Jutra’s À Tout prendre (1963)
• Jean-Pierre Marchand, Orphanhood, Fatherhood, and Family Super 8 Films
• Pamila Matharu, On stuck between an archive and an aesthetic (2019)
Janine Marchessault (York U) moderator

Among those sharing moderating duties during the symposium will be: