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Keynote by Jennifer Peterson: Love, Loss, & Climate Change

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The theme of the 11th Orphan Film Symposium is Love.  In her keynote talk, film historian Jennifer Peterson will take us in a direction surprising and wondrous.  Jennifer Peterson Love, Loss, and Climate Change:  Watching the Historical Nature Film Today   As the scope and scale of climate change and ecological collapse become ever more apparent, old films about the environment take on new meaning. Nature films were prevalent in the classrooms of the twentieth century. Generations of children watched these simple films about ecosystems, seasons, animal and plant species. How do these films display (and attempt to foster) a love of nature?

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“Saving Orphan Films: A South Carolina Symposium” (1999) 

This post is from August 15, 2014, and the predecessor Orphan Film Symposium blog. It is reposted here to improve discoverability and, one hopes, duration. — DS, New York City, June 27, 2020 The text below is essentially as it appeared in the December 1999 edition of International Documentary magazine, with only a few emendations. The publication doesn’t appear in any Web or database searches I’ve done.  The IDA is alive and well, however the International Documentary Association’s members-only archive of magazines only goes back to 2001. Hence, I take the liberty of republishing it here and embedding links to transcripts

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Filmography: Edison-Ott Sneeze (1894)

As part of this website’s annotated filmography of all works shown at the 2014 Orphan Film Symposium, the descriptions below are for items shown as part of this presentation:  Dan Streible, “A New Look at an Old Sneeze: Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze,” 9th Orphan Film Symposium, Obsolescence, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Mar. 31, 2014. Includes live accompaniment by Stephen Horne. 27 min. Audio here.  Recorded in January 1894, Fred Ott’s Sneeze (as it came to be known) was not seen as a moving image until reanimated from still photographs to 16mm film in 1953. The many film histories written before and

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Media Artists, Local Activists, and Outsider Archivists

Below is an early and longer draft of this essay, revised and published in the book Old and New Media after Katrina, edited by Diane Negra (Palgrave, 2010).  Some text below did not appear n the book. Mistakes are made, but I wanted to put the longer text online. — DS Media Artists, Local Activists, and Outsider Archivists: The Case of Helen Hill Dan Streible The traumatic events wrought by Katrina floodwaters in 2005 exposed painful aspects of the social fabric of New Orleans and the nation generally. Class- and race-based inequities were laid bare. Failures of government at every

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