closing night – Orphan Film Symposium

Orphans Closing Night

May 9, 2018 By Caroline Z. Oliveira

“Narrowly defined, it’s a motion picture abandoned by its owner or caretaker. More generally, the term refers to all manner of films outside of the commercial mainstream.” Examples: “public domain materials, home movies, outtakes, unreleased films, industrial and educational movies, independent documentaries, ethnographic films, newsreels, censored material, underground works, experimental pieces, silent-era productions, stock footage, found footage, medical films, kinescopes, small- and unusual-gauge films, amateur productions, surveillance footage, test reels, government films, advertisements, sponsored films, student works, and sundry other ephemeral pieces of celluloid (or paper or glass or tape or . . . ).”

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Vanguard Video April 11, 2024
Preserving a Gap April 6, 2024
MIRC’s Montgomery Mill Village Films April 5, 2024
Truth Films April 4, 2024
Life in the Dark April 3, 2024
Los subterráneos Cuba April 2, 2024
Japanese Paper Films April 1, 2024
Screening 8.75mm March 30, 2024
Cine amateur danseur March 29, 2024
Polaroid Land March 28, 2024
8.75 in the USC archive March 27, 2024

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Banner images: Montreal actress Johanne Harrelle in À tout prendre (Take it All) (1963), or, more accurately, in the 2020 media installation ORIGINES by Nadine Valcin. A Madman’s World (7’), The Bloody Crime Crusher (12’) from the presentation ‘Incarcerated Youth: Otisville Film Club, 1969-1972’ by DeeDee Halleck & Henning Engelke.

The design team for Orphans 2022 comprises Valeria Kriletich (@valeriakriletich Buenos Aires), Long Xi Vlessing (@longxiv Vancouver/Tiohtià:ke), Matt Soar (@mattsoar Tiohtià:ke), and Dan Streible (@orphan_films New York), with video and motion graphics work by Long Xi Vlessing. The main typeface for Orphans 2022 is Misto, a quirky display font created in 2019 by Ukrainian graphic designer Katerina Korolevtseva. Misto (“city” in Ukrainian) is a reverse-contrast typeface “inspired by Slavutych — the youngest city of Ukraine, which was born after the Chornobyl explosion.” See also: counter-contrast, counter-act, counter-mand, counter-poise, counter-current, counter-claim, counter-evidence, counter-archive.

Orphans 2022 is made possible by the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Cinema Studies, and Archive/Counter-Archive.

Program Committee: Juana Suárez (NYU MIAP), Ina Archer (National Museum of African American History & Culture), Amalia Córdova (Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage), Debbie Ebanks Schlums (A/CA Vanier Canada Scholar), and Charles Acland (Concordia U).

Organizing Committee: Dan Streible (NYU), Haidee Wasson (Concordia U), Matt Soar (Concordia U).