The latest NYU Orphan Film Symposium has wrapped — and the love buzz was lively throughout. Here’s the first of many photos to come, taken at Wednesday’s opening reception, April 11, 2018, at Museum of the Moving Image.
Shane and Craig. April 11, 2014.
Right: Craig Shemin of the Jim Henson Legacy, who that evening presented dozens of pieces from the Henson archive — ads, outtakes, sponsored films, experiments, tests, and the restored Time Piece (1965). Unbeknownst to NYU Orphans, Craig met Shane 4 years ago when TCM selected them as two of the “Ultimate Fans.” They appeared on TCM as guest programmers during the channel’s 20th anniversary.
Left: Shane Fleming, film collector, was our youngest registered symposiast, age 13 (and there were other teenagers among us too, including Chloe Courtney Bohl and Eleanor Wachtel of Columbia, South Carolina).
Equally youthful, guest filmmaker Lisa Chickering, age 95, the subject of Liz Czach‘s presentation, “The Girls,” Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield: Trailblazers of Travel Lecture Filmmaking, 1959-1979.
Lisa & Liz. April 14, 2018.
Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution.
Liz Czach helped get Lisa’s collection to the Human Studies Film Archives at the Smithsonian. Pam Wintle of HSFA received the material and archivist Annie Schweikert processed it in her first weeks working there. In 2017, Annie became a student in the NYU MIAP Program, so she was able to be at the Orphans 11 screenings.
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