Filipino American Historical Association of Chicago home movies from Ohio. 1937! #Orphans2026

The internet tells me this was 10 years ago today?! And one decade later #Orphans2026 at Ohio State is about to get underway! @orphanfilm.bsky.social

Tomorrow. Http://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm

QUESTION!(?) If I'm flying out of LaGuardia aiport at 2:30pm, how early should I prepare to arrive? (Terminal 3, Delta. Got 1 bag to check.)

See wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Community and Crisis and Community. A teaser 25 secs. Héctor Morales. thx TAMIS John Morton for the beautiful color films from Clarksville bank, 1939. Found unid. recording of "Go Where I Send Thee." #orphans2026

George Willeman brings newly preserved state-sponsored Ohio films. This, from 1937, the first in a series of one-reel films.

Come along, do.

Also this one, which I like. It should be cover art.

A filmstrip called "A Slave Story" (1986). Christopher Harris live-narrates at #Orphans2026 April 8-11. Photo: Tara Merenda Nelson (Visual Studies Workshop)

See this rediscovered Hollywood film, which survived only in small gauge and in another language. 99 years old. #Orphans2026 April 8-11.

Soviet Kitchen. Photo by Jacki Ochs. Restoration of her film LETTERS NOT ABOUT LOVE (1998) at Orphans 2026. April 8-11.

Jamie Kalven & Bill M. present work-in-progress at Orphans 2026. Bodycam video released after CHICAGO v. NOEM DHS "would have people believe" Chicago's in "a vise hold of violence" justifying "indiscriminate uses of force. . . That narrative simply is untrue." -- Judge Sara L. Ellis

The object finds its archivist. Aaron Lu (NYU MIAP thesis) shows this film from the YIVO archives, made at summer camp. Intertitles in Yiddish and Chinese! How many film archivists read these 2 languages? Only him?

New scans of home movies of a communist activist, Portugal, 1976.

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. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Gift from Craig Baldwin, he of the Morphin’ Orphan manifesto. Amateur film shot in Ohio ca 1960s

From @duoyun2601.bsky.social

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. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Video projection (in Los Angeles) designed by culture jammer (if thats still a thing) called VJay B*mb youtube.com/shorts/eP-dZ...

Fanone stays on task.

Good.

Fun fact. University professors can nominate a person for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Sunset in Narva 17 Jan 2026. (About 3:30pm)

Tank and Chamber Review essay on 2 recent exp docs www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“The media is reporting that the dangerous ‘Hong Kong flu’ has arrived in Russia and vaccines are powerless against it.”

Mayakovski

Emma & Fred Ott’s 50th wedding anniversary.

Now with a new holiday score. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCD...

Plus, another Fred Ott film web premiere. Read more . . . (Includes another Fred Ott web premiere from 1894) wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Happy January 7th! Fred Ott sneezed twice. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894.