The roll-out continues!
Here’s the simple-text version of the first full da of the NYU Orphan Film Symposium, Work & Play, April 10 through 13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image. We begin Wednesday evening with screenings from Argentina, including the North American premiere of La vida a oscuras (2023), Enrique Bellande‘s profile of film collector Fernando Martin Peña.
Registration is now open to all.
Day two is filled with diverse screenings by 25 presenters: newly-discovered films by Roman Vishniac; Nintendo arcade games with 16mm film loops; a psychedelic game for PlayStation1; Japanese “paper films”; amateur films from Canada, Iceland, USSR, Sweden; 8.75mm films from China –screened from an 8.75mm projector; rare work by Jim Henson; a new 16mm artist’s film about toy-making; and a cine-concert by the 2024 Helen Hill Awardee.
You get the idea. (Food and beverages along the way.)
THURSDAY, April 11
9:30am Welcome to OFS, Welcome to MoMI
Barbara Miller (MoMI) The IATSE Collection
Howard J. Radzyner (Radzyner, et al., LLC) The Vishniac-Sawyer Thrombosis Research Films, Newfound Work (1960s)
Angela Saward (Wellcome Collection) Medicine at Work and Play: A ‘Hidden Cinema’ (UK, 1931-1968)
Sonia Epstein (MoMI) moderator
11:20am Technologies at Play
Courtney Holschuh (LOC) Nitrate Multicolor Tests: Unidentified John Jones no. 122 (1930); Holiday in Mexico (1929)
Patrick Ellis (U of Tampa) Industrializing Vision: The History of Polaroid (1978)
Ben Solovey (Film Preservation Society) Battle Sharks and Wild Gunmen: The Challenges of Film-Based Arcade Games (1974-78)
Sarah Bashir & Patrick Vonderau (U Halle) Working Memory: Rethinking Orphan Works in Light of Interactivity. LSD: Dream Emulator (1998) for PS1
2:15pm Moving Image Technologies at Work (in Asia)
Klavier Wang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung U, Taiwan) Unveiling the True Face of a Parade in Formosan New Years procession–outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1930)
Eric Faden & Jackson Rubiano (Bucknell U) Preserving and Presenting Japanese Paper Films
Ann Lyuwenyu Zhang (NYU) & Dino Everett (USC) Thinking Out of Sync: A Presentation of the Chinese Obsolete Film Format 8.75mm
4:20 pm Creative Amateurs around the World
Sofia Elizalde (independent archivist, Rosario) Nostalgia for the Modern World: How to Instruct Operators and (also) Entertain the Audience with the Advantages of “La soldadura autógena”. La Soldadura Autógena (Autogenous Welding, Argentina, 193?)
Maria Vinogradova (NYU/Pratt Institute) Dancer Yuri Soloviev’s 8mm Films (USSR, France, 1960s)
Sigridur Regína Sigurthorsdottir (Icelandic Home Movie Collective) Unarchived: Sjósetning [Launch] (Þóra Kristjóns, ca. 1970-1978)
Christina Dovolis & Cléo Sallis-Parchet (York U) Floating Relics (2022) Jacobs Family Films (Canada, 1950s-90s)
Zhang Zhen with Momo Li & Jenny Hsu (NYU) Mellanrum [Gap] (Zhang and Ingela Lundhom, Sweden, 1985)
8:00 pm – 10:30 pm The Spirit of the Helen Hill Award
Karen Falk & Craig Shemin, Work Is Play: Rarities from The Jim Henson Legacy & Jim Henson Company Collections
Jodie Mack (Dartmouth) Artisanal Computer Animation: Symmetry (James Browning, 1972)
Danielle Ash (filmmaker) Toying (2024) a new 16mm film
Jeremy Rourke (Helen Hill Award) performs his music and “live cinema”: You’re Not Listening (2020), Lyrics on Paper (2014), and Flower Tower (2024)
