The Wednesday afternoon program of Orphans Online — the Helen Hill Awards + Super Super 8s.
Climate Wednesday
2:00 pm The Helen Hill Award (aka Super Super 8s)
Susan Courtney (U of South Carolina Film and Media Studies) presents the 2020 Helen Hill Award to filmmakers Martha Colburn (Los Angeles) and Jaap Pieters (Amsterdam) [Read the announcement here.] + a Kodak prize
Bill Brand with newly preserved Super 8 home movies of New Orleans and South Carolina
Amy Sloper (Harvard Film Archive) introduces the restored Rain Dance (Helen Hill, 1990)
Interview: Simona Monizza (Eye) and Marius Hrdy (Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival) Martha Colburn & Jaap Pieters
Mark Paul Meyer (Eye) A Fragmented Encounter with Jaap Pieters on the Occasion of Orphans 2020
Four by Martha Colburn
XXX Amsterdam (2004) restored by Eye
A Little Dutch Thrill (2004) restored by Eye
Triumph of the Wild (2009) abbreviated
Premiere of music video for the group Chasing Rainbows,
I Don’t Wanna (Go to Bed) (Martha Colburn and Pat O’Neill, 2020)
3:30 – 4:00 pm Super Super 8s continued
Petra Belc (Cineclub Zagreb) and Nadja Šičarov (Austrian Film Museum) The Maritime Mini-documentaries : Restoring the Amateur Experimental Super 8 Sound Films of Tatjana Ivančić (Yugoslavia, 1970s)
Ekvinocij [Equinox] (1973) and Varijacije [Variations] (1975)
Plus
The unedited version of
https://vimeo.com/421046514