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All week.
Cinemateca Portuguesa–Museu do Cinema, the National Archive of Moving Images (ANIM).
Wua Ling Wu (Toronto Metro U) "Ethical Dilemmas in Digitizing Portuguese Revolutionary Home Movies"
Campanha PCP [Partido Comunista Português] 1976 (Daniel Caeiro Pereira)
at the Orphan Film Symposium, April 8-11, 2026
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New scans of home movies of a communist activist, Portugal, 1976.
Alice Cinema, Yale U, 2025
Amateur Movie Day is next week. In 2025, Yale's Alice Cinema and Brian Meacham of the Yale Film Center screened a half dozen gems. Including the Soviet Russian title seen here. I BELIEVE IN SPRING (1962). It was the first film by director Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky, 1982).
R.I.P Slava. 2.28.2026
Treats and door prizes at the NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference
Test successful. We will get live piano accompaniment for a silent film restoration in progress next week. Doros-Heller-Sosin.
Also Paula Fêlix Didier from Buenos Aires.
Also pioneer Mona Jimenez. “Save the tapes.”
Howard Besser zoomed in from Brazil for the MIAP 20th anniversary gathering.
(Crestron projector made sure its malfunction prompt remained emblazoned in middle of the screen.)
Thanks to Howard Rodman for the alert.
Craig Baldwin’s manifesto. 2016
The whole slate. April 8-11. 42 presentations, 17 sessions, 50+ presenters.
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Gift from Craig Baldwin, he of the Morphin’ Orphan manifesto. Amateur film shot in Ohio ca 1960s
From @duoyun2601.bsky.social
With DuoYumeno. !
Everyone knows Japanese Paper Films are in high demand worldwide. The Orphans at MoMA show was joy filled. Eric Faden & team resurrected the format an 100+ works. And they aren’t on the internet yet. Increasing the value of their international first-run.
Artifacting. Reflection off the confidence monitor in rehearsal this morning. @ Orphans at MoMA
She said it.
R.I.P. Frank Roumen (of Eye Filmmuseum, and thrice of Orphan Film Symposiums). Here in New York 2018.
Yay
Saturday, Jan. 31, 2pm, Orphans Films @ MoMA
*LESS (1973) Hollis Frampton
*TREES (1973) Glenda & Paul Fillinger
*DOIN’ THE RACCOON (1929) DeVry Cinetone
*LITTLE FARMERS OF REYNOLDSBURG, OHIO (1936) N.G.V.
*Untitled #16, 18, 19, 20 (1966) Edward Owens
*Japanese Paper Films (1930s) 40 min., live music
The 2026 Helen Hill Award announcement on Friday.
Meanwhile, enjoy Helen's YOUR NEW PIG IS DOWN THE ROAD (5'), with into by Phil Hoffman, creator of the "Film Farm" where where Helen made the hand-processed 16mm film.
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Video projection (in Los Angeles) designed by culture jammer (if thats still a thing) called VJay B*mb youtube.com/shorts/eP-dZ...
Love is all around.
Fanone stays on task.
Good.
