#Orphans2024 ➡️ Bastards 2025
= Columbia, SC.

'You are an archive.' Alexa Efune on curator June Givanni of the Pan-African Cinema Archive receiving a special BAFTA award. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/202… via @orphan_films

La Vida a Oscuras (Enrique Bellande, 2023) #Orphans2024

This NYC Symposium Gives a Rare Spotlight to Lost Films, from Jim Henson Obscurities to Bizarre Medical Shorts trib.al/VjKYGe6

Reported on the must-needed Orphan Film Symposium Museum of the Moving Image IndieWire

A new sine qua non.

Andrew Simpson plays; Jennifer Horne narrated a 1921 edition of a public health film OUR CHILDREN restored by Eye Filmmuseum. #Orphans2024

Just a few of the many highlights from Day #1 of Orphan Film Symposium symposium at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art x NYU Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies x Dan Streible in a 🧵 ⬇️ Starting with the highly anticipated LSD Dream Emulator prrsented by Sarah Bashir & Patrick Vonderau (more videos later on YT)

,@EphemalMedia on orphan films.

Preshow

True.

Chance to take home some Flicker Alley discs.

'Women Film Eclipses, 1898-1901.'
Longish read, but copiously illustrated. Gertrude Bacon, Gertrude Bacon, Ada Ardley Maskelyne, Annie Russell Maunder, and  a certain “Mrs. Ireland.” Plus 4 guys called John Nevil Maskelyne.
wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/202…

Jodie Mack asked film archivists if they work after 6pm do they charge a nitrate.
(Rim shot.)

Jodie Mack Symmetry coming to #Orphans2024 with 3D glasses. Danielle Ash plays the musical saw. + early Jim Henson. Jeremy Rourke on guitar. #HelenHillAward

The mark of distinction in industrial filmmaking.

work & play. An NYU Orphan Film Symposium. April 10-13. Museum of the Moving Image

Images: unidentified European film about welding 1939? Appropriated by amateur filmmaker in Argentina. Kid playing with hoop in MY OWN YARD TO PLAY IN. 1957. #orphans2024

Let’s get that 840-footer scanned.

This past Friday I met with my collaborator NYPL archivist Elena Rossi-Snook to prep for our Orphan Film Symposium Symposium presentation. Delighted to share the rarely screened 16mm print of FISH MARKET (1955), a Fulton Street fish market city symphony 🐟 #Orphans2024 .