Save the date, as they say. Click here to register for the fourteenth biennial NYU Orphan Film Symposium.
We convene April 10-13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Our theme: Work & Play. How have orphan works documented and envisioned these subjects throughout the history of moving images? Once again archivists, scholars, artists, curators, and others will convene to screen and discuss a plethora of preserved audiovisual works.
Registration is open to all. The symposium begins Wednesday evening, April 10, with a 7pm reception and 8pm screening. April 11, 12, and 13, sessions all day, with an 8pm screening each night. Some 26 hours of programming. Plus catering, T-shirts, and more.
The full daily schedule will be published here in February. Some additional presenters will be added to this list, but here’s the current lineup of 50+ speakers and their stuff.
- Jeremy Rourke (2024 Helen Hill Award recipient) animation in performance, including You’re Not Listening, homage to Craig Baldwin
- Barbara Miller (MoMI) The IATSE Collection
- Fernando Martín Peña (Filmoteca Buenos Aires) Enrique Bellande’s La vida a oscuras (Life in the Dark, Argentina, 2023)
- Ann Lyuwenyu Zhang (NYU) & Dino Everett (USC) Projecting 8.75mm Film Prints from China: News Report (1972) & animation Little Trumpet Player (1973)
- Eric Faden (Bucknell U) Preserving and Presenting Japanese Paper Films of the 1930s
- Ashley Dequilla (Filipino American Historical Society ) & The Estrella Alamar Audiovisual Collection: The Little Farmers of Reynoldsburg, Ohio (Nicholas Viernes, 1936)
- Karen Falk & Craig Shemin Work IS Play: Rarities from the Jim Henson Legacy & Jim Henson Company Collections, 1957-1987
- Hayley O’Malley (U of Iowa) & Allyson Field (U of Chicagto) Art on Her Mind: The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, 1976 and 2023, with filmmakers Monica Freeman & Louise Fleming
- Sarah Bashir & Patrick Vonderau (U Halle / Stockholm U) Abandonware: LSD: Dream Emulator (Osamu Sato, 1998) on original PlayStation 1 console
- Ben Solovey (Film Preservation Society) Nintendo Film-Based Arcade Games, 1974-1978: Wild Gunman (Yokoi Gunpei, 1974), Kasco’s The Driver (1976)
- Patrick Ellis (U of Tampa) Industrializing Vision: The History of Polaroid (1978)
- Klavier Wang & Yen Yung-Cheng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Unveiling the True Face of a Parade: Formosan New Years procession / parade — outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1930)
- Sophia Gräfe (Humboldt U, Berlin) & Carolin Pommert (Charité – Universitätsmedizin) Making Children Work: Medical Films from East Germany
- Charles Acland & Laura Pannekoek (Concordia U) Crawley Films and the Work of Canadian Resource Extraction
- Courtney Holschuh (Library of Congress) Nitrate Color Tests: Unidentified John Jones No. 122 (1930); Holiday in Mexico (1929) with Pickford & Fairbanks
- Rosemary Feurer (Northern Illinois U) & Charles Musser (Yale) Carl Marzani and The Sentner Story (1953)
- Luke Kuplowsky (York U) Where Will The Children Play? Urban Detritus and the Cine-Child; restoration debut of My Own Yard to Play In (Phil Lerner, 1959)
- Libertad Gills (U della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland; U de las Artes, Ecuador) The Working-class Films of Guayaquil’s Gustavo Valle: Un muñeco llamado Año viejo (1979) & El subamericano (1976)
- Howard J. Radzyner with rediscovered Roman Vishniac research films made with surgeon Philip N. Sawyer (1960s)
- Angela Saward (Wellcome Collection, UK) Medicine at Work and Play: A “Hidden Cinema,” 1931-1969
- Sonia Epstein (MoMI curator of science and technology)
- Todd Wiener (UCLA) One in Seven: True Confessions of a Gay Fleshpouinder (John Canalli, 1988)
- Stephen Slappe (Dead Media Hour) East Bay Skateboarders, 1965 Home Movies
- Danielle Ash debuts her stop-motion 16mm film Toying (2024)
- Annabelle Aventurin Excavation Films of Bernard Nantet: [Tegdaoust Archaeological site, Mauritania] (197?)
- Aurore Spiers (U Chicago) Women Workers in the Media Archive: Citroën automobile factory films, 1914–1925
- Isabel Wschebor Pellegrino (U de la República) Cinematographic Archive and Labor in Uruguay: Films by Ferruccio Musitelli, 1970-1973
- David Sherman (U of Arizona) Painting and Scratching on Celluloid with Wayne Thiebaud: Make a Movie without a Camera (1954)
- Adina Brădeanu (Bodleian Libraries, U of Oxford) A Bucharest Film Studio Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary: Noi la cinci ani / Us, Aged Five (Alexandru Sahia Studio, 1955)
- 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
- Masha Godovannaya (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) 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 (Film Desk / 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) 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 sound 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)
- Wanda Strauven (Columbia U)
- Joseph Clark (Simon Fraser U)
- Eric Hynes (MoMI Curator of Film)
- Aziz Isham (MoMI Exec. Director)
- Dan Streible (NYU)
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.
![Frames from 2 films with circle motifs.](https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.nyu.edu/dist/d/75/files/2024/01/orphans2024_work-play-diptych-1024x372.jpeg)
The diptych at top marries frames from: (left) La Soldadura Autógena (1939?), Sofia Elizalde, Rosario, Argentina; (right) The paper film Military Parade (193?), Toy Film Museum (Kyoto, Japan) and The Japanese Paper Film Project.