7th Orphan Film Symposium

Orphans 7

The 7th Orphan Film Symposium: Moving Pictures Around the World
April 7 - 10, 2010

Friday, April 9

SILENT CIRCUITS
Prelude: Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Edison, 1909) piano by Donald Sosin
Matthew Solomon (CUNY Staten Island) Reaching the Whole World, 1896-2010: The Global Circulation of Star-Films
Rip's Dream [La lègende de Rip Van Winkle] (Georges Méliès, 1905) piano by Donald Sosin
Nancy Watrous (Chicago Film Archives), Judith Miller (Valparaiso U), and Andy Uhrich (NYU MIAP) The Story of A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha (Katharine Ertz-Bowden and Charles Bowden, 1904)
Scott Simmon (UC Davis) Reenacting the Revolution: Sheriff Eugene Buck’s Forgotten Docudrama Ammunition Smuggling on the Mexican Border (1914)
Marty Marks, piano

ASIAN FRAGMENTS (from China, Italy, Russia, Georgia, and South Carolina)
Sergei Kapterev (Moscow Research Institute of Film Art) Rediscovering Kalatozov’s First Film Their Kingdom (Mikheil Kalatozishvili and Nutsa Gogoberidze, 1928)
[Aftermath of Japanese Attack on Shanghai] (unid., 1937?) with remarks by Greg Wilsbacher (USC MIRC) [Chinese Motion Picture Studio] (Fox Movietone News, 1934) preservation by Colorlab
Zhang Zhen (NYU) Hou Yao’s Shadowplay
A Poet from the Sea (China Sun Motion Picture Co., 1927)
Donald Sosin, piano
MOVING THE UNDERGROUND ABOVE GROUND
Sears Sox (1968) by Pat O’Neill, Neon Park, and Chick Strand
Bill Brand (BB Optics) and Andrea Callard 11 thru 12 (1977)
Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive) GO OH WOW: Unexpected Discoveries in the Excavation of the L.A. Avant-Garde (Films of Chris Langdon)
Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives) Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (Manuel DeLanda, 1980)
Jeff Lambert (NFPF) moderator
WOMEN AMATEUR FILMMAKERS TRAVEL
Kathy Dudding (Fulbright Fellow, New Zealand) Tracing the Flâneuse: New Zealand/Aotearoa
Melissa Dollman (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) Margaret Cook Thomson’s Home Movies of Ginling College, China (1930-38)
Kimberly Tarr (Smithsonian Institution) 'Round the World and Back Again: An Examination of the Adelaide Pearson Travel Films (1931-1940)
Mark G. Cooper (USC Moving Image Research Collections) Claudia Lea Phelps’s Laconia Reel (1923): Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, India, Egypt (preservation by Colorlab)
MARSHA ORGERON AND DEVIN ORGERON (The Moving Image) INTRODUCE
Charles Musser (Yale U) Investigating The Investigators (Union Films, 1948)
"ROUGH, UNPOLISHED, BUT ALIVE": BLACK AND WHITE FILMS THE COLOR OF BLOOD
Anna McCarthy (NYU) on the production of The Cry of Jazz
Jonas Mekas introduces The Cry of Jazz (1959) restored by Anthology Film Archives with funding provided by The Film Foundation
Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern U) introduces filmmaker Edward Bland (for Q&A)
Sarah Resnick (Acconci Studio) introduces
Esther B. Robinson (Danny Williams Film Preservation Project) [The Velvet Underground Rehearses] (1965)
Callie Angell (Whitney Museum of American Art) Andy Warhol's Uptight #3 -- David Susskind (1966) music performed by T. Griffin
[EPI at RISD] (WJAR-TV, April 1, 1967) courtesy of Oddball Film + Video

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