Celebrating Orphan Films. George Clark
The Orphan Film Symposium, under the direction of Dan Streible, has championed a broad range of moving image culture since 1999. Firmly established in the international parlance of film archives, ‘orphan films’ referrers to the huge array and variety of material ostensible abandoned by its owner or caretaker, which can include anything from amateur and home movies, outtakes and alternative versions, unreleased films, industrial and educational movies, experimental films, silent-era productions, test reels, advertisements, etc. etc. The ‘Celebrating Orphan Films’ weekend hosted at the UCLA Film and Television archive in Los Angeles demonstrated the breadth of this area and critical import in championing this host of disregarded forms. Featuring presentations from a range of archivists and curators, the weekend exploded many supposedly separate traditions and often blurred the lines between different types of filmmaking, from industrial to experimental, personal to collective. http://lux.org.uk/blog/celebrating-orphan-films _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
