The 12th Orphan Film Symposium Water, Climate, & Migration May 26-29, 2020 Tuesday, May 26: WATER The Silent World https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/16/session1/ https://vimeo.com/429504288 Environmental Impact https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/17/impact/ https://vimeo.com/429875386 Water Tuesday screenings https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/17/watch3/ https://vimeo.com/429498250 Wednesday, May 27: CLIMATE Early German Images of the Anthropocene https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/18/german/ https://vimeo.com/430242631 Darkening Days https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/19/darkening/ https://vimeo.com/430561049 The Helen Hill Awards https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/20/helen/ https://vimeo.com/430926503 Super Super 8s: Films by Tatjana Ivančić https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/20/super8/ https://vimeo.com/431032937 Climate Wednesday screenings https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/21/climatewed/ https://vimeo.com/431071315 Thursday, May 28: MIGRATION Great Migrations https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/21/greatmigrations/ https://vimeo.com/431088477 Euro Migrations https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/22/euro/ https://vimeo.com/431339417 Migration Thursday screenings https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/23/migrations/ https://vimeo.com/431690134 A Clockface Orange performs Deliquescence https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/24/clockface/ https://vimeo.com/432042400 Friday, May 29: Never Lost But Found in the Ocean:
Category: Orphans 12 2020
Listening to Ja’Tovia Gary and The Giverny Document
May 28, 2020: On the final evening of the Orphan Film Symposium, after a screening of her new film The Giverny Document (single channel) artist Ja’Tovia Gary joined in conversation with Terri Francis (Director of the Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University). Watch the recording of their discussion (with the filmmaker in Dallas, the scholar in Bloomington) below. The Giverny Document remains in its festival run and is now also a three-screen museum installation, The Giverny Suite. These are also part of flesh that needs to be loved, a sculptural installation whose exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York was cut
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Wild Fowl in Slow Motion
In the previous post about the teaser/trailer that Courtney Stephens created for Orphans 2020, I noted her source materials had their own interesting orphan stories. News about the schedule for the late May symposium — Orphans Online — will be posted here in a few days. Meanwhile, a consideration of the short fragments used in the teaser sets up the issues we will be examining in depth — and suggests how neglected films can provoke thinking about water, climate, and migration. The uncanny footage called If the Antarctic Ice Cap Should Melt? — outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1929) is our emblematic