About Orphans 2022: Counter-Archives

ORPHANS 2022: COUNTER-ARCHIVES Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec, Canada (June 15-18, 2022) *We acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we will gather. Indigenous Directions Leadership Council, Concordia University (2017)  New York University join forces with Concordia University to present the 13th edition of the Orphan Film Symposium in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, June 15-18, 2022.  This biennial event brings together an international group of archivists, scholars, artists, curators, preservationists, librarians, collectors, distributors, documentarians, students, researchers, and others devoted to saving, studying, and screening all manner

Propuestas — Huérfanos 2022

Convocatoria de propuestas (Fecha límite: 1 de octubre de 2021) ORPHANS 2022: COUNTER-ARCHIVES / CONTRA-ARCHIVOS Concordia University (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec, Canada) 15-18 de junio de 2022 Reconocemos que la Universidad de Concordia se encuentra en tierras indígenas expoliadas. Se reconoce a la nación Kanien’kehá:ka como custodiadora de las tierras y aguas en las que nos reuniremos. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal* se conoce históricamente como lugar de reunión para muchos pueblos indígenas. Hoy en día, es el hogar de una población diversa de pueblos originarios y de otras naciones. Respetamos las continuas conexiones con el pasado, el presente y el futuro en nuestras relaciones actuales

From the LOC vaults: American Labor short MILLIONS OF US (1935)

The first and (as of 2021) only web access to the film Millions of Us is via scholar Tanya Goldman’s YouTube channel, which hosts the file the Library of Congress made upon scanning a 16mm print of this public domain work. Screen credits: American Labor Pictures, Inc. presents: Millions of Us: A Story of Today, directed by Jack Smith and Tina Taylor; written by Gail West; asst. director George Buck; photographed by Mark. Cast: Bud MacTaggart (unemployed), Glen Neufer (striker), Wesley Ferguson (union organizer). sound, 16 min., b&w, 1935-36. (Prelinger Archives posted an incomplete version with no audio track at archive.org.)