Orphan films find a home at STF

  • by Raphaela Neihausen, March 11, 2010

image Best of the Orphan Film Symposium has appeared at STF every two years. The third edition on March 9 featured a sneak preview of a newly discovered film by Henri Cartier-Bresson, shot during the Spanish Civil War, along with other rarely seen works spanning the 20th century from left-wing newsreels to experimental animation to sublime home movies.  Below are some photos from the night, courtesy of STF passholder EJ.

imageDan Streible, founder and curator of the Orphan Film Symposium
imageBill Morrison, filmmaker of DECASIA, who showed his short work HOW TO PRAY
imageJeanne Houck of Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives who was last at STF with THE GOOD FIGHT
imageJuan Salas, film scholar who discovered Henri Cartier-Bresson film WITH THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE in the collection of the NYU Tamiment Library
imageMichael Nash, head of NYU Tamiment Library, introducing the film THE PASSIAC TEXTILE STRIKE (1926)
imageAuthor Farai Chideya introducing Helen Hill’s film SCRATCH AND CROW
imageDwight Swanson of Home Movie Day introducing THINK OF ME FIRST AS A PERSON, a home movie honored by the National Film Registry
imageJon Wynne introducing his sister Christine Wynne’s 8 mm documentation of a landmark gay wedding, CHUCK & VINCE: WEDDING OF THE YEAR, APRIL 8, 1978

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