An “Orphans International”

At the 2020 Orphan Film Symposium in Amsterdam, we’ll see films from the 1930s about Polish diaspora. Archivist Iga Harasimowicz (Polish National Film Archive) will talk about the collection and recent digitization work, joined by scholar Grazia Ingravalle (Brunel U London).    Opening frames from Among Poles Living in France (1938) & Polish Settlement in Brazil (1936). Filmoteka Narodowa.  Meanwhile, Prof. Ingravalle has just published her report on “Radicals,” the 2019 Orphan Film Symposium at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. Read it on the blog of Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema. “As a transnational scholar,”