Save the date, as they say. Click here to register for the fourteenth biennial NYU Orphan Film Symposium. We convene April 10-13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Our theme: Work & Play. How have orphan works documented and envisioned these subjects throughout the history of moving images? Once again archivists, scholars, artists, curators, and others will convene to screen and discuss a plethora of preserved audiovisual works. Registration is open to all. The symposium begins Wednesday evening, April 10, with a 7pm reception and 8pm screening. April 11, 12, and 13, sessions all day, with
Category: Orphans 14 2024
REGISTER 2024
Welcome! Here’s the link to the page where you can register and make e-payment for the April 10-13, 2024 symposium. Registration fee (unchanged since 1999): $250 (USD). Students and underemployed persons, $125. Registration includes access to all symposium events, beginning Wednesday, April 10 ( 7pm reception, 8pm screening); catered lunches and coffee/tea breaks April 11, 12, and 13; closing dinner and drink at MoMI on Saturday 8pm; and (we hope) dinner on Thursday. (Friday is “dinner on your own.”) Also an Orphans 2024 T-shirt, printed program, and goodies TBA. Day rates are available for those who would like to attend
Argentina Redux, Orphans 2024
Rollout of the April 10-13 program continues: two presenters will add to the symposium’s continuing attention to films from Argentina. Renowned film collector, historian, educator, programmer, TV host, and raconteur Fernando Martín Peña will join us for the NYU Orphan Film Symposium. On opening night we will screen Enrique Bellande’s La vida a oscuras (Life in the Dark, Argentina, 2023, 74 min.), a profile of Peña. Recorded throughout seven years, we see his daily life in Buenos Aires: in the self-designed home/tower where he stores his library of 8,000 prints; teaching (and projecting) at the national film school; in the
Orphans 2024: The Program (second part)
The roll-out continues with this second piece of the program for the NYU Orphan Film Symposium, April 10-13, 2024. Our meeting place: Museum of the Moving Image. Our theme: Work & Play. Adding to the 33 presenters announced in part 1, here’s 33 more archivists, scholars, artists, preservationists and curators who will present these rare, neglected, and preserved audiovisual works. (A few more will soon be announced in the third and final part.) But this mix of exciting films and speakers is reason enough to join us. Registration is open to all. Kimberly Tarr (NYU) premieres Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (David
The 2024 Helen Hill Award goes to Jeremy Rourke
Every other year, the Orphan Film Symposium confers its Helen Hill Award to an exceptional independent filmmaker whose work befits the late artist’s legacy, celebrating creativity, collaboration, animation, and things made by hand. This year we recognize media artist/animator/musician/performer Jeremy Rourke. Preview his work at jeremyrourke.com, his Vimeo page, and Instagram @jeremy.rourke. But his is a live cinema practice. As part of “Orphans 2024: Work & Play,” Rourke will screen his work and perform original music with the projections at Museum of the Moving Image, April 10-13. The NYU Orphan Film Symposium brings together an international audience of archivists, artists,
[Read on. . . . ] The 2024 Helen Hill Award goes to Jeremy Rourke
Orphans 2024: The Program (first part)
The NYU Orphan Film Symposium convenes April 10-13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Our theme: Work & Play. How have orphan works documented and envisioned these subjects throughout the history of moving images? Once again archivists, scholars, artists, curators, and others will convene to screen and discuss a plethora of preserved audiovisual works. Registration is open to all. Click here to register. The symposium begins Wednesday evening, April 10, with an opening reception at 7pm and 8pm screening. April 11, 12, and 13, sessions all day, with an 8pm screening each night. (That’s 26
Helen Hill Award 2024 (apply by Oct. 16)
Filmmakers! Apply for the 2024 Helen Hill Award! The Orphan Film Symposium invites independent filmmakers to apply now for its 2024 Helen Hill Award. Conferred by the University of South Carolina Film and Media Studies Program and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and its Department of Cinema Studies, the award has an application process open to all. The recipient/s of the award will be funded to participate in the 14th Orphan Film Symposium, April 10-13, 2024, at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. They will present selections from their work, projected for an eclectic audience of artists, scholars, archivists, curators,
Work & Play in 2024 (submit by Oct. 16)
The 2024 NYU Orphan Film Symposium convenes April 10-13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NYC. Presenters will be selected from proposals to this open call. Submit by October 16, 2023. Theme: Work & Play We invite proposals for presentations that respond to the theme(s) of work and/or play, broadly considered. How have orphan films (neglected audiovisual media) recorded, represented, influenced, and imagined these subjects throughout the history of moving images? Conceptions of work might include: labor, industry, class, jobs, occupations, production, productivity (and failure), automation, technologies, performance; people, animals, machines, and
Return to Astoria: 2024
Announcing . . . a return to NYC and our every-six-years home at MoMI. The 14th Orphan Film Symposium will be in New York, April 10-13, 2024. The NYU Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies and Tisch School of the Arts again join with Museum of the Moving Image to host this international gathering. Mark your calendar and join us. <movingimage.us> + <tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies> = <orphan.film> In 2012 and 2018 the symposium convened at MoMI in Astoria, Queens, for memorable events: Orphans 8, Made to Persuade, and Orphans 11, Love. Scholars, archivists, artists, curators, preservationists, and other advocates for studying, saving,