Registration is open for the Orphan Film Symposium at Indiana University Bloomington, September 26-28, 2013. Co-organized with NYU Cinema Studies, "Orphans Midwest" address the theme of Materiality and the Moving Image. 

Register here: http://www.cinema.indiana.edu/about/orphans-midwest/

64 presenters, 50+ films, 100+ additional attendees (to include YOU). Premieres of new preservation work from films as early as 1894. New works from as recently as 2013 (Jane Gillooly's SUITCASE OF LOVE AND SHAME). Rediscovered "lost" films (THE ORGY AT LIL'S PLACE, 1963, from the Kinsey Institute film collection). Live music. Food, drink. 

Keynote by Tom Gunning (U of Chicago). 

Schedule below and attached.

Contact dan.streible@nyu.edu with questions.

 

Thursday, Sept. 26 9am-5pm

Indiana University Memorial Union (Dogwood Room)

SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group

graduate student conference:

Placing Orphan Films

Conveners: Martin Johnson(Catholic U) andAndy Uhrich(IU)

6:30pm Opening Reception IU Auditorium

8:30pm Films for Cello in the Indiana University Cinema

Four works presented by filmmakerBill Morrison

with live performance by Opus 3 artist and cello virtuosoMaya Beiser

Light Is Calling (2004) music by Michael Gordon

Cello Counterpoint (2005) music by Steve Reich for Maya Beiser

Just Ancient Loops (2012) music by Michael Harrison for Maya Beiser

+

world premiere of All Vows, with Michael Gordon’s music, "All Vows” (2006)

Indiana University Cinema and the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program commissioned Bill Morrison’s All Vows. The project is supported by Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Institute.

Friday, Sept. 27 in the Indiana University Cinema

9:00am Welcome

Orphans Midwest trailer (Russell Sheaffer, 2013)

Rachael Stoeltje (IU Libraries Film Archive), Jon Vickers (IU Cinema), Dan Streible (NYU Orphan Film Symposium)

9:15am Keynote by Tom Gunning (U of Chicago)

10:00am Silent-Era Films chair: Dan Streible

Mike Mashon(Library of Congress) Paper Prints in the DataCine Era

Dan Streible(NYU) A New Look at an Old Sneeze: Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (W.K.L. Dickson, 1894) x 3

Heddi Vaughan Siebel (media artist) Anthony Fiala’s Arctic Expedition Films, 1901-1905

+ A Dash to the North Pole (Charles Urban, 1909) compilation film, with partially retitled with Swiss German intertitles. 35mm print from BFI National Archive

Greg Wilsbacher(U of South Carolina) The Fox Varieties Series: Frogland (192?) and the Unreleased A Frontier Post (1925)

11:30am break

11:45am Media Migration chair: Jeff Martin (Independent Media Arts Preservation)

Mike Casey(IU Media Preservation Services) The Media Preservation Initiative

Stefan Elnabli (Northwestern Library) Digitizing 16mm Football Films

Mona Jimenez (NYU) Early Video Processing Tools: Art & Technology

1:15pm lunch

2:30pm Educational Films and University Distribution chair: Rachael Stoeltje

Alex Kupfer(NYU) University Extension Programs and Nontheatrical Film Distribution

Natasha Ritsma (Kenyon College) History of the IU Audio-Visual Center

Amy Beste (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) EB Films: The Living City (1953)

Marsha Gordon(NC State U) & Allyson Nadia Field (UCLA) OnFelicia(U of California Media Center, ca. 1965) and Felicia Bragg

4:15pm break

4:30pm Indiana – Working for a Living chair: Greg Waller

Donald Crafton(U of Notre Dame) and Andrew Beckman(Studebaker National Museum) Partnership of Faith(Studebaker Corp., 1949)

Gregory A. Waller(IU) a home movie from Brown County

James Paasche (IU) Transportation Underground: The Story of a Pipeline (Robert Young, for Indiana Farm Bureau Co-Op Association, 1953)

6:30pm dinner break (on your own)

8:30pm Portmanteau: 35mm, 16mm, HD, and ¼” Magnetic Audio Tape

Kit Hughes (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research) trailers from the Emile de Antonio Collection, including the German-language Point of Order (1964).

Greg Wilsbacher introduces the premiere of the 35mm restoration A Frontier Post (Fox, 1925), musical accompaniment by Gabriel Gutierrez Arellano

Jennifer Reeves introduces her hand-painted 16mm film Landfill 16 (2011)

Albert Steg (Center for Home Movies) introducesSuitcase of Love and Shame (Jane Gillooly, 2013) and the suitcase of tapes he discovered

Q&A with filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow Jane Gillooly (School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Extramural Blue Note: IU Cinema’s public programming on this Friday night includes a midnight screening relevant to the symposium, but not technically part Orphans Midwest. Free admission for registered symposium attendees.

11:59 pm public screening (Adults only.)

Eric Schaefer (Emerson College) introduces William Mishkin productions

The Orgy at Lil’s Place (Jerald Intrator, 1963) 77’

+ trailer for Fleshpot on 42nd Street (Andy Milligan, 1972) 2’

Saturday, Sept. 28 in the Indiana University Cinema

9:00am Outs & Trims chair: Noelle Griffis

Nadia Ghasedi (Washington U) from Eyes on the Prize, Henry Hampton Collection

Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin Films) from Kartemquin Films

Noelle Griffis (IU) from the Peter Bogdanovich Collection

10:45am break

11:00am Off the Rails:Hell Bound Train chair: Brian Graney

Jacqueline Stewart (U of Chicago) and Brian Graney(IU Black Film Center/Archive) Early Black Film Artifacts as Material Evidence: Digital Regeneration

S. Torriano Berry (Howard U) Reconstructing the Eloyce Gist Film Fragments at the Library of Congress: Hell Bound Train (1929-30) and Verdict Not Guilty (1930-33)

12:30pm lunch

2:00pm Kinsey Institute Film Archive chair: Russell Sheaffer (IU)

Eric Schaefer (Emerson College) on William Mishkin and The Orgy at Lil’s Place (1963) Joseph Slade (Ohio U) and Liana Zhou (Kinsey Institute)

3:30pm break

3:45pm Recontextualizing Bits and Pieces chair: Dan Streible

Greg Wilsbacher on Indiana University Graduation (Fox Movietone News, 1929)

Craig Kridel (U of South Carolina Museum of Education) Alice Keliher and theHuman Relations Film Series(1937-1942)

Screening: a rare archival16mm print from the HR series:

Fury (lynching) (Human Relations Commission, 1939)

edited by Helen van Dongen

from Fritz Lang's Fury (MGM, 1936)

Andy Uhrich (IU) The Film Group of Chicago: Advertising Films and Verité Documentary

5:15pm break

5:30pm Materiality and the Moving Image: Closing Thoughts and Discussion

Tom Gunning, Rachael Stoeltje, Dan Streible, Marsha Gordon, Jacqueline Stewart, et al.

6pm reception + dinner, IU Art Museum

featuring Skip’s 16mm Silent Science Screeningprojected bySkip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks)

8:30pm Music in Orphan Films in the Indiana University Cinema

Curated by Kelli Hix (Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)

Hix Pix Mix are likely to include things such as:

Andrea J. Kelley (IU): Hong Kong Blues and Lazy Bones (1941, Hoagy Carmichael) IU Archive of Traditional Music

Asia Harman (IU Libraries Film Archive): Hoosier Promenade (Janet R. MacLean; IU Audio-Visual Center, 1957)

Anne Wells (Chicago Film Archives): Park Band (Hedman-Gray, Inc., ca. 1965)

Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin Films): Anonymous Artists of America (Gordon Quinn and Jerry Temaner, 1970)

Greg Pierce (Orgone Archive): Sonambients: The Sound Sculpture of Harry Bertoia (Jeffrey Eger, 1971)

Garden Gates: performing live with a collage of science and nature films from IU Libraries Film Archive

Andy Uhrich (Center for Home Movies): Blanche’s Recital (Arthur H. Smith, 1977), with live accompaniment by Lylas (Nashville, Tennessee)

Kelli Hix (Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum): Super 8 Kodachrome home movie of Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, and other country music stars in Anderson, Indiana (1971)

Jake Austen (Roctober Productions): Chic-A-Go-Go highlights (Chicago Access Network Television, 1996-2013)

Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks): All Girl Melody Makers (Castle Films, 1946)

Sara Chapman (Media Burn Independent Video Archive): Cheat-U-Fair (Columbia College Visual Production Seminar, Jim Passin, 1980)

Liz Coffey (Harvard Film Archive): Honky Tonk Bud (Scott Laster, 1986)

Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound: Kincaid on Makin’ Music (WBIR-TV, Knoxville, 1983)