When the Orphan Film Symposium assembles in April for its seventh biennial meeting, it will review more than 40 hours of footage over the course of four days. The OFS plays host to films and videos that have lost their contextual home: newsreel outtakes, educational and industrial films,...
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City Symphonies Pt. 2
The morning of Saturday, Oct. 3 I dusted off my weathered Panasonic DVX100 out and headed off for Prospect Heights for my second round of shooting for the City Symphony assignment, again adhering to the rules set out for me: stick to Prospect Heights during the hours of 10 am to 1 pm. I stayed...
City Symphonies in Progress
My first assignment for the Collaborative program was modeled after the City Symphony genre, which largely consists of silent or scored films shot of city life during the 1920s. From what I understand, these films were among the first to string together a rough narrative comprised of non-staged...
