The roll-out continues with this second piece of the program for the NYU Orphan Film Symposium, April 10-13, 2024. Our meeting place: Museum of the Moving Image. Our theme: Work & Play.
Adding to the 33 presenters announced in part 1, here’s 33 more archivists, scholars, artists, preservationists and curators who will present these rare, neglected, and preserved audiovisual works. (A few more will soon be announced in the third and final part.) But this mix of exciting films and speakers is reason enough to join us. Registration is open to all.
- Kimberly Tarr (NYU) premieres Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (David Loeb Weiss, 1980) with Walter Forsberg (Smithsonian); newly preserved with Bill Brand (BB Optics) for NYU Libraries.
- Barbara Miller (MoMI) The IATSE Collection
- Angela Saward (Wellcome Collection, UK) Medicine at Work and Play: A “Hidden Cinema,” 1931-1969
- Sonia Epstein (MoMI curator of science and technology)
- Masha Godovannaya (Gagarin Center Fellow, Smolny Beyond Borders) From the Archive of Necrorealist Evgeny Yufit
- Bill Morrison (Hypnotic Pictures) The Vanguard Tapes (2024) Hi-8 video from the Village Vanguard kitchen in the 1990s
- Jake Perlin (Cinema Conservancy) The People’s Holiday (United May Day Committee, 194?)
- Antonia Lant (NYU) The Pyramid Pictures Corporation, 1920-1922.
- Roger C. Lansing & Caleb Simonds (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) A Lost-and-Found Story from Cooperstown: Jimmie Foxx Home Movies, Japan (1934)
- Tanya Goldman (Hunter College) & Elena Rossi-Snook (NYPL for the Performing Arts) A Piscatorial Symphony: Fish Market (Michael Eisler & Leroy Stone, 1955)
- Maria Vinogradova (NYU Jordan Center; Pratt Institute) Ballet dancer Yuri Soloviev’s home movies and travel films (USSR, France, 1960s)
- Shane Fleming DeVry Cine-Tone: Amateur Talkies, 1928
- Anthony Gonzalez (NYU/MIRC) Industrial Paternalism in a South Carolina Mill Village: Startex: Men and Women at Work and Play (Walter S. Montgomery, ca.1940)
- Christina Dovolis & Cléo Sallis-Parchet (York U) Floating Relics (2022) and Jacobs Family Films (1950s-1990s)
- Natalie Snoyman (Mill Valley Public Library) Inventor Hal Schwartz’s Vibrabath advertising film (ca. 1957)
- Archivistas Salvajes Collective (Lucía Malandro, Daniel Saucedo, Josué Gomez, & Fabio Quintero, in association with Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola), Los Subterráneos Cuba: Nace una plaza & Parrandas de Camajuaní (Miguel Secades & Miguel García, 1988)
- Zhang Zhen (NYU) presents the restoration of her Super 8 student film, Mellanrum [Gap] (Sweden, 1985), with Momo Li & Jenny Hsu (MIAP Program)
- Dana Polan (Martin Scorsese Chair, NYU Cinema Studies)
- Juana Suárez (NYU MIAP Director)
- Eric Hynes (MoMI Curator of Film)
- Wanda Strauven (Columbia U)
- Dan Streible (NYU)
- Jeremy Rourke (2024 Helen Hill Award recipient)
Click here to register and enjoy three days and four nights of transnational camaraderie, sharing food, drink, screenings, music, and conversation with scores of fellow symposiasts.
