#orphans8

Go straight ahead!

8^th Orphan Film Symposium: Made to Persuade
11–14 April 2012 at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NYC

A preliminary tweet by @retoch

• We are proud to support the #orphans8 Film Symposium «Made to Persuade»
  orphanfilmsymposium.blogspot.com/2012/03/penultimate-draft-of-orphans-8-program.html

Tweets by @RetoKromer

• NYC, I’m coming! Officially for #orphans8. – «Haimish to Haute in New York» by Adeena Sussman
  forward.com/articles/153762/haimish-to-haute-in-new-york/
• I’m trying to reach Astoria, Queens, NYC. Do I have to turn left or right?
• «My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.»
  ~ Diane Arbus
• The city of Geneva, NY, claims it’s the «Lake Trout Capital of the World.»
• «Oh! C’est haut, c’est haut New York»
  ~ Serge Gainsbourg
• Let’s paint the town red tonight!
• Die Hochbahnkatastrophe by Valy Arnheim (DE 1921)
  nano.reizfeld.net/filmarchiv/paimann/1921/Paimann_292_1.jpg
• «Archivists who don’t like film are like eunuchs in a harem.»
  ~ Tom Gunning
• #orphans8 showing Bell Labs films / «The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation» by J Gertner
  www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/the-idea-factory-bell-labs
• Yvonne Zimmermann about Die Börse als Barometer der Wirtschaftslage by Hans Richter
  reto.ch/cgi-bin/filmo.pl?what=Die%20B%F6rse&where=title
• Orphan films or bastard films, that’s a question… #orphans8 #bastards8
• «Lillian Schwartz Sees in Four-Dimensions» by Walter Forsberg
  incite-online.net/forsberg3.html
  #3D (thanks @jubilantpeeps)
• The World Is Ours (1938). Or, more precisely, 65% of your «celluloid dollar»!
• Frank Tashlin’s «puppets tableaux vivants» in The Way of Peace (1947)
• One Friday by Rolf Forsberg (1973) is quite impressive. And problematic. Happy to have seen it.
• Crowd translation of Arabic and Russian film labels is needed: 124 of 850 records translated
  afilmarchive.net/about
• Astoria, Queens, NYC with all the trimmings.
• So happy to having seen Men in Dust by Lee Dick (1940): the abstract sound design fascinates me a lot!
  #experimental
• The Jungle is an other powerful film at #orphans8. The gorgeous opening a little tricky in the booth… considering sharpness.
• The Orphan Film Symposium has remembered
  Alan Stark (1945–2011)
  preservationist, musician, mensch
• ¡Muchas gracias Orphanistas del mundo! ~ Seeing you all again in 2014 in Amsterdam.

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