7:00am - 8:00am - Clarion Hotel - Eastman Room
Education Committee Meeting
7:00am - 8:00am - Clarion Hotel - Jordan Room
Bylaws Task Force Meeting
7:30am - 8:00am - Clarion Hotel - Skyway Room
Session Chair Orientation
Hosted by: Conference Committee
Program Group Directors:
Julie Lofthouse, The Film Reference Library / TIFFG
Bob Curtis-Jonson, Summit Day Media
This meeting will serve as an information session for all session chairs at AMIA’s annual conference. It will provide chairs with an overview of their role as session facilitators and outline the Association’s Basic Chairing Guidelines. Members of the Conference Committee will be in attendance, and all session chairs should attend.
8:00am - Clarion Hotel
Buses leave for sessions
8:30am - 5:30pm - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
MIC Registration Desk
8:30am - 5:30pm - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
AMIA Vendor Cafe
Please join us for the always informative AMIA vendor exhibits in the Cafe. It’s a great place to get a cup of coffee, have a quick meeting or just hang out between sessions. Coffee will be on all day, and make sure to stop by and pick up a box lunch.
8:30am - 9:30am - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
eBay: More than a Four-Letter Word
Hosted by: Small Gauge and Amateur Film Interest Group
Co-Chairs:
Snowden Becker, University of Texas, Austin
William O’Farrell
Speakers:
Albert Steg
Snowden Becker, University of Texas, Austin
Founded in 1995, eBay has exerted a profound influence on how buyers buy and sellers sell for over a decade. Film collecting has also changed radically during this period, with more archives, studios, and individuals working to acquire a wider variety of materials through donations, purchases, and trades. Panelists will speak from their own experience as eBay buyers and sellers; discuss the ethics and practicalities of acquiring film from online auctions; show excerpts of footage acquired via eBay auctions; and present new research on how Internet auctions may affect the cash value of home movies. This session presents a variety of different perspectives on eBay and other Internet tools as persistent forces in film collecting, and will be of interest to collectors, collection managers, appraisers, and eBay junkies alike.
8:30am - 9:30am - Kodak: Camera Club Theatre
Kodak’s Continued Support of Archival Film Media
Co-Chairs:
Jonathan Barlow, Eastman Kodak
Diane Carroll Yacoby, Eastman Kodak
Speakers:
Jeffery Moore, Eastman Kodak
David Niklewicz, Eastman Kodak
Diane Carroll Yacoby, Eastman Kodak
Jonathan Barlow, Eastman Kodak
KODAK Entertainment Imaging Product Managers and Research Engineers will host a panel discussion providing insight to film products, formats and services made for the archivist/preservationist community. This will be an opportunity for a dialog between Kodak and its customers about the future needs of the industry and Kodak’s role within it.
8:30am - 9:30am - Kodak: IMM Conference Ctr
The Continually Unwinding Project: A Story of Research and
Recovery of a Series of 1930’s New Jersey Local Films
Hosted by: Independent Media Interest Group
Chair: Dan Streible, NYU, MIAP
Speakers:
Lisa Fehsenfeld, New York University
Yvonne Ng, New York University
Jude Kiernan, New York University
What started out as a class project for three graduate students in NYU’s Moving Image and Archiving Program turned into a treasure trove of local films, enterprising entrepreneurs, the development of a theatre circuit to outwit the studios, with a fascinating host of characters. This presentation covers the work of recovery, research, preservation, and final archiving of a series of 1930’s local films and discusses the production of local film, the business of early film exhibition, preservation of the films, and locating archival space for permanent storage and access. This panel, targeted for all level of film enthusiasts, moves on to discuss the important collaborative efforts required between specialists in archives, academia, and film labs to achieve the greatest understanding and optimum results for this valuable film form. And the project continues...
9:30am - 10:00am - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
Take a Break in the AMIA Vendor Cafe
Please join us for the always informative AMIA vendor exhibits in the Cafe. It’s a great place to get a cup of coffee, have a quick meeting or just hang out between sessions. Coffee will be on all day, and make sure to stop by and pick up a box lunch.
10:00am - 11:30am - Kodak: Camera Club Theatre
Passion in the Pit: Women in the Technical Professions
Hosted by: Preservation Committee
Chair: Toni Treadway, Brodsky & Treadway
Speakers:
Giovanna Fossati, Nederlands Filmmuseum
Diana Little, Cineric
Julia Nicoll, Colorlab
Heather Weaver, ReelTimeColor.com
What are the hands-on jobs that help save our moving image heritage? Endless tweaking and fine tuning of equipment, optical printing, test strips, chemistry checks, density correction, color grading, video set up. What’s this work like? Women who have chosen to work as preservation technicians will describe challenges and benefits in their behind -the- scenes support of our field. These women are dedicated, highly skilled and passionate about their work. Where did each come from, what is her job, her training, her passion? New members with no technical experience will find this panel puts faces on specialized work that demands intellectual rigor, ethical clarity and diplomatic skills to interpret project realities to clients and colleagues. Speakers will touch on how they got here, what drives them in their daily work and what drives them crazy.
10:00am - 11:30am - Kodak: IMM Conference Center
Access to Access: Preserving Public Access Television
Hosted by: Independent Media Interest Group and the
News, Documentary and Television Interest Group
Chair: David Rice, Democracy Now!
Speakers:
DeeDee Halleck, Deep Dish Television
Erik Mollberg, Access Fort Wayne
David E. Renner, Penfield Community TV - PCTV
Caroline Rubens, New York University
Jennifer Wager, Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Public Access, Educational, and Government television channels produce more than 20,000 hours of new local programming each week, more than NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and PBS combined. Even though public access television involves thousands of community groups and over a million volunteers per year, the time and resources in the field of public access television spent towards preservation and long-term access is a sliver of that spent by their commercial counterparts. Public access materials represent over three decades of local media production. Some programs have national scope and significance, while others are uniquely local or personal examples of independent media, representing “marginalized strategies of production, action, resistance and pleasure.” (Erik Mark Freedman) This panel investigates the preservation and long term accessibility of public access media.
10:00am - 11:30am - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
RAVA Panel Discussion: Outreach, Preservation and Access Initiatives Within and Between Regions
Hosted by: Regional Audio-Visual Archives Interest Group
Chair: Karan Sheldon, Northeast Historic Film
Speakers:
Marion Hewitt, North West Film Archive
Sue Howard, Yorkshire Film Archive
Megan Peck, Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Nicolette Bromberg, University of Washington
Speakers from regional A-V archives will discuss their experiences and future plans in regard to connecting with other institutions (museums, libraries, tribal organizations, historical societies, broadcasters, as well as other archives-municipal, religious) to further the shared goals of moving image preservation and access, while avoiding duplicated effort. Our speakers, from established and startup archives, will share and take questions on replicable programs. Discussion will feature details of fundraising, education, partnering and outreach, including regional digital initiatives. Can we ensure that access is “mediated, structured, and relevant?” Can we meet the needs of diverse audiences? Topics include publishing, preservation partnerships, workshop development, and how regional A-V archives can work with and support A-V archives in other regions.
11:30am - Kodak Building
Buses leave for Clarion Hotel
11:30am - 1:30pm - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
Have Lunch in the AMIA Vendor Cafe or Take it to Your Meeting!
Please join us for the always informative AMIA vendor exhibits in the Cafe. It’s a great place to get a cup of coffee, have a quick meeting or just hang out between sessions. Coffee will be on all day, and make sure to stop by and pick up a box lunch.
11:45am - 12:45pm - Kodak: Camera Club Lecture Room
Digitial Initiatives Committee Meeting
11:45am - 12:45pm - Kodak: SB2 A/B
Access Committee Meeting
11:45am - 12:45pm - Kodak: IMM Conference Room
Copyright Interest Group Meeting
11:45am - 12:45pm - Kodak: CR 151
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Interest Group Meeting
12:45pm - 1:45pm - Kodak: CR 151
Cataloging Committee Meeting
12:45pm - 1:45pm - Kodak: SB2 A/B
Independent Media Interest Group Meeting
12:45pm - 1:45pm - Kodak: Camera Club Lecture Room
Advocacy Task ForceMeeting
12:45pm - 1:45pm - Kodak: IMM Conference Room
Publications Committee Meeting
1:30pm - Clarion Hotel
Buses leave for Kodak and George Eastman House
2:00pm - 5:15 pm - George Eastman House
Nitrate: Yesterday and Today
Hosted by: Nitrate Interest Group
Chair: Edward E. Stratmann, George Eastman House
Speakers:
Deborah Stoiber, George Eastman House
Anthony L’Abbate, George Eastman House
Ulrich Ruedel, George Eastman House
In this double session, we will first screen the 35mm restoration of the film “ A Movie Trip Through Filmland” [25 minutes], which shows the production of motion picture film at Eastman Kodak Company in the twenties. After a brief presentation detailing methods George Eastman House utilizes with nitrate film the group will be break into two smaller groups. One group will hear presentations on three ongoing projects at Eastman House: the removal of decomposing sections from a roll of nitrate film to protect the remaining footage; the procedure to process and scan a collection of motion picture still negatives for conservation and access; and the scanning and organization of a large group of nitrate motion picture frames that will produce a work that will help to define the history of motion picture color, from applied color to Technicolor. The second group will go to the George Eastman House Still and Paper Conservation Laboratory where they will see a presentation on handling, storage and conservation of nitrate still materials.
After the break at 3:30, the groups will exchange places.
2:00pm - 3:30pm - Kodak: Camera Club Theatre
Cataloging Preservation
Hosted by: Cataloging & Metadata Committee
Co-Chairs:
Thelma Ross, Academy Film Archive
Karen Barcellona, Academy Film Archive
Speakers:
Margie Compton, University of Georgia Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
David Gibson, Moving Image Division, Library of Congress
Susi Niewahner, Scene Savers
Thelma Ross, Academy Film Archive
Karen F. Gracy, Kent State University
This session focuses on the importance of documenting the preservation process in the catalog record. As more archives amass large holdings of preserved materials, consistent documentation anticipates the needs of the next generation of preservationists, historians and scholars. Speakers from a variety of institutional backgrounds (traditional film archives, a media archive, a provider of restoration and reformatting services, and academia) will address the following questions: What is documented from acquisition through restoration? What portion of this information should go in the catalog record? How can institutional standards and workflows be established? When work is outsourced, what role can vendors play in capturing data for the archive? How do current systems and standards facilitate or inhibit these processes, and what tools can be developed to support these activities? What is appropriate to include in publicly accessible records?
2:00pm - 3:30pm - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
RAVA Screening
Hosted by: Regional Audio-Visual Archives Interest Group
Co-Chairs:
Leo Enticknap, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
Kevin Tripp, Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association
In May 2005, Eastman Kodak discontinued the manufacture of its iconic Kodachrome colour reversal stock in the Super 8 format, thus marking the beginning of the end of this medium, exactly 70 years after its introduction. The cultural impact of Kodachrome was huge. It made colour available to home movie and still photographers for the first time, it made colour production affordable for industrial and educational films, and its use as part of the ‘Technicolor Monopack’ system enabled professional cameras to shoot in locations where the bulky three-strip camera couldn’t be used. Our screening will include examples from all three categories, as a tribute to the medium which helped define moving image culture over half a century.
2:00pm - 3:30pm - Kodak: IMM Conference Ctr
Access Issues in Avant-Garde and Experimental Film
Hosted by: Access Committee and Independent Media Interest Group
Chair: Cindy Keefer, Center for Visual Music/Fischinger Archive
Speakers:
Andrew Lampert, Anthology Film Archives
Jon Gartenberg, Gartenberg Media Enterprises
John Thomson, Electronic Arts Intermix
The second edition of this popular panel will examine contemporary problems of avant-garde film distribution and exhibition. The panel will address access to avant-garde film, including distribution on film, video, dvd, internet and digital media, including new areas that have evolved since the previous panel. The discussion will cover the crises with 16mm distribution and exhibition, re-licensing for distribution of historical works (including music clearance, copyright and estate issues), research issues, and reformatting of historical film. Curators, preservationists and distributors will address areas of concern including legal restrictions, difficulties in finding and programming films outside the mainstream, and format issues pertaining to the avant-garde, including expanded cinema and multiple projector works. This panel is intended for curators and programmers at all levels who work in the area of avant-garde and experimental film.
3:30pm - 3:45pm - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
Take a Break in the AMIA Vendor Cafe
Please join us for the always informative AMIA vendor exhibits in the Cafe. It’s a great place to get a cup of coffee, have a quick meeting or just hang out between sessions.
3:45pm - 4:45 pm - Kodak: IMM Conference Ctr
Pixels: from Talbot to LCD
Chair: Gawain Weaver, George Eastman House
Speakers:
Gawain Weaver, George Eastman House
Richard F. Lyon, Google, Inc.
The picture element, later called simply a “pixel”, has a history that dates to the earliest years of photography. Gawain Weaver will trace the first 100 years of the “pixel” from its origins in the 1850s with the photogravure experiments of William Henry Fox Talbot, to its introduction into color photography in the 1860s, with the visionary thinking of the father of color photography, Ducos du Hauron, and finally to the additive screen processes of the 1890s-1950s. From the point of view of still and motion-picture photographers, additive color and its picture element disappeared with the rise of Technicolor, Kodachrome, and other subtractive processes. However, the picture element was alive and well in the budding technology of television. Richard Lyon will trace the evolution of the pixel and the term “pixel” from its earliest ancestors in television literature to the present.
3:45pm - 5:15pm - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
The Fragile Emulsion
Hosted by: Independent Media Interest Group
Chair: Jon Gartenberg, Gartenberg Media Enterprises
Speakers:
Jon Gartenberg, Gartenberg Media Enterprises
Barbara Hammer, Filmmaker
Experimental filmmakers engage in the most radical refashioning of archival found footage material through their creative sensibility, shifting the narrative import of the original footage through their own creative visions into plays of light and texture. This session is designed for the general AMIA membership to highlight the underexposed genre of avant-garde filmmaking, and the important link between artists and archives. In this session, curator and archivist Jon Gartenberg engages filmmaker Barbara Hammer in a discussion about her use of archival footage by James Sibley Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber from the George Eastman House collection to fashion her seminal film on the fragility of human existence, “Sanctus” (1990), as well as in her experimental features on identity and gender, including “Nitrate Kisses” (1992). An integral component of this session will include screenings of films, videos, and excerpts from Hammer’s own body of work.
3:45pm - 5:15pm - Kodak: Camera Club Theatre
Evolving Rituals: Home Movie Day at Five
Hosted by: Small Gauge / Amateur Film Interest Group
Co-Chairs:
Liz Coffey, Harvard Film Archive
Guy Edmonds
Speakers:
Snowden Becker, Center for Home Movies
Nancy Watrous, Chicago Film Archives
Skip Elsheimer, AV Geeks Archive
Karianne Fiorini, Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia
Since 2002, archivists and enthusiasts around the world have been celebrating amateur cinema at annual Home Movie Day events. Each event is as different and as similar as birthday parties, so, with Home Movie Day aged five, it’s time to come together and discuss its successes, pitfalls, implications, and future direction. Five HMD hosts representing varied backgrounds (archival and non-archival, US and international) will present their individual experiences, setting the agenda for further discussion. The session will address specific topics such as how to expand interest in the event among archivists, the public, and diverse non-archival institutions, while maintaining archival standards; the role of the Center for Home Movies; the implications of different methods of funding; spin-off projects; and home video. HMD participants, regional film archivists, and those with a special place in their hearts for the amateur film are strongly encouraged to attend.
5:30pm - 6:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Eastman Room
Nitrate Interest Group Meeting
5:30pm - 6:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Fitzhugh Room
Strategic Plan Implementation Task Force Meeting
6:30pm - Clarion Hotel
Buses leave for Nitrate Screening
7:00pm - 9:00pm - George Eastman House: Dryden Theatre
Nitrate Screening: “Portrait of Jenny”
One of the most unusual romances ever filmed, “Portrait of Jennie” is the picture of sumptuousperfection. Starring Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones is enthralling from its touching beginning to its haunting conclusion. When struggling artist Eben Adams meets the beautiful and mysterious Jennie, he is instantly captivated. Before long, Jennie has become his great muse and he is enjoying success and bliss beyond his dreams. But there is a price to pay for such elation, and soon Eben must face the truth about who Jennie really is. “Portrait of Jenny” will be preceded by a program of shorts. Curated by our friends at George Eastman House.
9:30pm - 11:30pm - Clarion Hotel: Riverview Ballroom
First Annual AMIA Trivia Throwdown
Test your skills, win prizes and be the first AMIA Trivia Championship Team! Are you game? And, thanks to our friends at Warner Bros. Home Video, Walt Disney Company, 20th Century Fox and Movie City News, there will be prizes for most team spirit, best team name, and - most important - the coveted AMIA Trivia Champions trophy! Our thanks to Ascent Media Group for sponsoring the evening.
All the funds from Trivia Night will go to support AMIA 's Maryann Gomes Award, which awards funding assistance for regional archivists to attend the Annual AMIA Conference.
