The roll-out continues. What’s happening in Astoria? Friday, April 12.
Here’s the rundown for the NYU Orphan Film Symposium, Work & Play, at Museum of the Moving Image.
Registration is open to all.
FRIDAY, April 12
9:30 am Making Children Work; Teens Making Work
Sophia Gräfe (Humboldt-University Berlin) & Carolin Pommert (Charité Berlin) Making Children Work: Medical Films from East Germany.
Musikerziehung in der Kinderkrippe (1980), Die psychologische Führung des Kindes im Krankenhaus (1976)
Katerina Kampoli (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée)
The Centre Familial De Jeunes de Vitry Films, 1966-1983. Et après (And Then, 1969)
11:20 am Fieldwork: Excavation and Extraction
Annabelle Aventurin Excavation Films of Bernard Nantet: [Tegdaoust Archaeological site, Mauritania] (197?)
Tania López Espinal (Cineteca Nacional de México) & Mariana Hernández Blanca (Salvamento Arqueológico Tren Maya) Archaeologist Florencia Müller and Cualác Cueva Ostocama (1951)
Charles R. Acland & Laura Pannekoek (Concordia U) Crawley Films and the Work of Canadian Resource Extraction
2:15 pm Cine Amateurs at Work, in Latin America
Isabel Wschebor Pellegrino (U de la República-Uruguay) Cinematographic Archive and Labor in Uruguay: Ferruccio Musitelli’s films (1970-1973)
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)
Lucía Malandro (Archivistas Salvajes; Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola) Los Subterraneos Cuba
4:20 pm Men and Women at Work and Play
Roger C. Lansing & Caleb Simonds (National Baseball Hall of Fame) Jimmie Foxx Home Movies, Japan (1934)
Anthony Gonzalez (NYU) & Kimberly O’Quinn (USC MIRC) Startex: Men and Women at Work and Play (ca.1940) and Spartan Mill as Community (Walter Montgomery, 1938)
Ashley Dequilla (Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago) The Estrella Alamar Audiovisual Collection. Little Farmers (1936), score by Les Talusan (2024)
8:00 pm Arts on Their Minds
Tanya Goldman (Hunter College) & Elena Rossi-Snook (NYPL) A Piscatorial Symphony: Fish Market (Michael Eisler, Leroy Stone, 1955)
Bill Morrison The Vanguard Tapes (excerpts) (2024)
Hayley O’Malley (U of Iowa) & Allyson Field (U of Chicago)
with filmmakers Monica Freeman & Louise Fleming
Art on Her Mind: The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, 1976 and 2023
- [Earliest recorded interview with Faith Ringgold] (John Wise, 1972)
- Valerie: A Woman, An Artist, A Philosophy of Life (Monica Freeman, 1975)
- Just Briefly (Louise Fleming, 1975)
- Spin Cycle (Aarin Burch, 1991)
