NYU Cinema Studies & Tisch School of the Arts present Orphans Online, May 26-29, 2020 (All times are NYC, Eastern Daylight Time; GMT -4) #Orphans2020 The 12th Orphan Film Symposium on Water, Climate, and Migration originally to be held at Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam in May 2020 became impossible to convene (due to the you-know-what). Most of the 60 scheduled presenters agreed to experiment with an online edition, mixing live talks and live-stream screenings with extensive texts and videos posted on this NYU website. Some of these extraordinary and polished video presentations are already posted. The world has changed. Thanks
Category: Water
Why Water, Climate, and Migration?
Three of the program committee members for the 2020 Orphan Film Symposium preview Orphans Online, explaining why the three themes were selected and how orphan films in particular address them. The live streams of May 26-29 begin at 10am, 2pm, and 6pm (EDT) each day. Still other videos continue to be placed on this blog daily. Anna McCarthy, chair of Cinema Studies at NYU, leads a conversation with Giovanna Fossati (Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam), Jennifer Peterson (Woodbury University, Los Angeles), and Dan Streible (New York University, NYC). Audio only: Always curating, Giovanna made for the occasion a playlist on the water
The Orphans Radio Hour with Stephanie Sapienza
Watch this and you will smile, then laugh, and then say “Wow!” And you will absolutely learn a lot. Truly. The educational broadcasters of Cold War America never tapped the power of a medium the way this 12 minute and 45 second Radio Hour does. What started as Stephanie Sapienza‘s proposal to play a 1954 radio piece about the Mississippi River for the Orphan Film Symposium on Water, Climate, and Migration transformed from a talk about linked data and digital humanities into . . . this! or go to vimeo.com/419551316 The only question is: Emmy or Peabody? “The NAEB Radio
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The Tennessee Valley Authority: “Built for and Owned by the People”
Bradley E. Reeves (Appalachian Media Archives) presents The Tennessee Valley Authority: Built for and Owned by The People This new 23-minute video, made for the Orphan Film Symposium on Water, Climate, and Migration, documents the history and controversies surrounding the TVA since the 1930s, compiling 8mm and 16mm home movie footage, 16mm documentary film clips, folk music recordings, excerpts from feature films, and local television newsfilm and videotape. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 chartered the agency to modernize the region. It aimed to educate farmers in ways to improve crops, help replant forests, control forest fires, and improve
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The Austin Flood (Thanhouser, 1911)
For Orphans 2020 Online, citizen archivist Ned Thanhouser (founder of the nonprofit Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.) has created a new introduction to a sobering 10-minute documentary record of a deadly Pennsylvania catastrophe filmed in 1911. Preserved by the Library of Congress, the 35mm print appears to be a complete copy of the footage the Thanhouser Company released just a week after the disaster. This “graphic picture of the calamity” is presented here with a new piano score by Ben Model, recorded for this Orphan Film Symposium debut. Play full-screen here, or go to vimeo.com/421600208. And a lost film. As Ned