Last week brought the sad news that amateur filmmaker Robbins Barstow had died at home in Hartford. He was 91. Since the mid-1930s, Barstow had produced more than a hundred films and videos, most of them documents of quotidian family life, all marked by a peculiar narrative sensibility. In the...
Posts tagged “Orphan Film Symposium”
The 7th Orphan Film Symposium
When nitrate film begins to decompose, the pictures it holds lose their form, dissolving into a gauzy chemical wash that dances on the surface of the projection. Your eyes flicker between the amorphous globules at the fore and the crystalline, precisely defined image beneath...
Crate Digging: The Orphan Film Symposium
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,...
Stranger Than Fiction Winter Line-Up Now Up
Thom Power’s documentary series Stranger Than Fiction, which runs Tuesday evenings at the IFC Center, has announced their winter line-up. Highlights include screenings with Ross McElwee and Albert Maysles, a Best of the Orphan Film Symposium, and the 1967 epic David Holzman’s...
