University of South Carolina Film Symposium Orphans IV * On Location: Place & Region in Forgotten Films March 25-27, 2004 The University of South Carolina will host its fourth symposium on the preservation, study, and use of orphan films. Again the USC Film Studies Program and the Film Library bring together an eclectic mix of moving image archivists, cinema scholars, preservation experts, curators, and filmmakers who work with orphaned material. Selected speakers will lead three days of presentations, screenings, and discussion. * We invite presentations on the role of orphan films in recording, representing, constructing, and imagining the world. What do regional and local cinemas tell us about the places where they were made? What creative geographies are formed from the likes of amateur films, newsreels, travelogues, kinescopes, ethnographic, educational and industrial documentaries, silent movies, science films, indie features and other neglected motion pictures? How do local and regional, national and global issues affect the preservation of and access to moving image materials? How are ideas about particular spaces and landscapes shaped by forgotten films? From the home of home movies to the world of the world-wide web, Orphans 'O4 will re-examine how neglected media artifacts create a sense of place. Send one-page proposals by June 15, 2003 to Dan Streible Dept. of Art * USC * Columbia, SC * 29208 * (803) 777-9158 * [log in to unmask] www.sc.edu/filmsymposium ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html