Program
Thursday - November 13

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Session additions and changes will be posted here.

7:15 am - 8:15 am
AMIA Newcomer Breakfast

Chair:
Andrea McCarty, HBO

Welcome to the AMIA Conference! The Newcomer program matches first-time attendees with experienced AMIA members. Support and guidance is offered to those who may be attending an AMIA conference for the first time and provides experienced AMIA members an opportunity to meet newcomers to the field or to the conference. The Breakfast will give everyone a chance to meet and network. Preregistration is required.

8:00 am - 3:45 pm
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.

8:30 am – 10:00 am
Future Directions
New Horizons: Organizations in the Face of Convergence

Chair:
Karan Sheldon, Northeast Historic Film

Speakers:
Sam Brylawski, Immediate Past President, ARSC
Richard Cox, University of Pittsburgh
Ricky Erway, Research Library Group, OCLC

The conference opening plenary session will consider how the archival community can best manage change and how we might act together as an effective community. This first of three gatherings organized by AMIA’s Future Directions Committee will frame common challenges and ways to understand them [See also Thursday, 2 p.m., Enacting Futures, and Saturday, 3:45 p.m., Electronic Publications.] The Future Directions Committee was formed in 2008 to ensure that AMIA’s board and members scan the horizon together, discussing AMIA’s role as a convening organization informed by other organizations and forward-thinking individuals.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Stop By Shoot Film

Co-Chairs:
Jonathan Barlow - Eastman Kodak Company
Randall J Tack - Eastman Kodak Company

Stop By Shoot Film is a hands-on opportunity to capture images using a Super 16mm motion picture camera. Participants will learn the basics of camera operation, exposure and film emulsion choices. Led by a Kodak cinematographer, participants will work in small groups to practice various camera techniques while shooting various scenes. Each participant will receive a DVD to enable them to view their work. Scene creativity is encouraged. Pre-registration is required with a separate registration fee.

10:00 am - 10:30 am
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.

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Doing the Best You Can, With What You Have

Chair:
Susi Niewahner - Scene Savers

Speakers:
Susi Niewahner - Scene Savers
Brent Phillips - Fales Library
Caroline Rubens - Appalshop

The best laid plans of mice and men….” We’ve all learned the best archival practices; however what happens when challenged by a lack of staff or budget? This session will focus on comparing archival ideals, with real world situations. It can be a difficult balance to maintain archival integrity with limited means. Come see how these obstacles are overcome in different archival environments - a university library, an independent non-profit archive and even an archival services company. What would have been done differently if given the chance? What was successful? Come share your story in an extended Q&A session.

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
After Education: Careers in Moving Image Media

Co-Chairs:
Stephen Parr - San Francisco Media Archive
Amy Sloper - Harvard Film Archive

Speakers:
Alex Cherian - San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive,
Daniela Curro - Haghefilm
David Lemieux - Grateful Dead Productions
Albert Steg – Independent Consultant
Lindy Leong - UCLA School of Film, Theatre and Television

The session provides varied perspectives regarding the paths available for a career in moving image media. Presenting a cross section of international career-oriented post graduates in a number of areas (film preservation, library science, film making) this session addresses questions such as; What opportunities are available in the moving image marketplace? How should people prepare themselves in an evolving media environment? Does academia provide enough real world experience? Panelists will share their challenges and track their career paths, providing crucial answers for future moving image archivists. Sponsored by the Independent Media Interest Group and Education Committee.

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Prioritising Projection: Raising Standards in Traditional
and Digital Theatrical Access

Co-Chairs:
Leo Enticknap - Institute of Communications Studies,
University of Leeds
Paul Rayton - American Cinematheque

Speakers:
Leo Enticknap - Institute of Communications Studies,
University of Leeds
Paul Rayton - American Cinematheque
Brian Guckian - Projected Image
Katie Trainor - Center for Home Movies

Archives and their audience face a major threat from the film industry’s impending and rapid conversion to d-cinema. Traditional projection skills are in decline, leading to increased levels of print damage and incorrect presentation. Many of the new digital installations do not fulfil the technical needs of archival presentation, as do some of the commercially available datacine and encoding services. This session is aimed at archivists, exhibition professionals, cinema engineers and equipment vendors who are concerned with maintaining the technical integrity of the theatrical archival viewing experience through the biggest period of change facing the exhibition sector since the conversion to sound.

12:00pm
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.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Education Committee Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Preservation Committee Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Diversity Task Force Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Moving Image Materials and Documentation Interest Group Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Independent Media Interest Group Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Cataloging & Metadata Committee Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Awards Committee Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Advocacy Task Force Meeting

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Future Directions: Enacting the Future

Chair:
Caroline Frick, University of Texas, Austin

Speakers:
Sam Brylawski, Immediate Past President, ARSC
Richard Cox, University of Pittsburgh
Ricky Erway, Research Library Group, OCLC

The plenary speakers Sam Brylawski, Richard Cox, and Ricky Erway will participate in a follow-up to the morning session focused on balancing issues of problem solving, technology and ethics in regard to audiovisual preservation and access. This will be an informal 90-minute discussion aimed at establishing common ground on practical issues.

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Learning with the Lights Off:
Educational Film, Archives, & the Contemporary Classroom

Chair:
Dan Streible - New York University

Speakers:
Skip Elsheimer - A/V Geeks
Devin Orgeron - North Carolina State University
Marsha Orgeron - North Carolina State University

While scholarly interest in educational films is building, practical issues of archival access, research, and pedagogy are infrequently addressed. This panel is designed to be a bridge between the academy and this often underutilized part of the archive (electronic, private, state, or national). We will suggest some ways these collections of historical educational materials might serve researchers and educators. We will also screen a representative educational film. Presented in conjunction with “Lost in the Archives? Unearthing Small Gauge Nontheatrical Films”

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
The Reel Thing XXI Annex: Experimental Films for Archivists
- Eleven Shorts Programmed With the Curious Film Archivist in Mind

Chair:
Mark Toscano - Academy Film Archive

For those of you already interested in so-called experimental film, I know I don’t need to convince you to check out this program.  To the uninitiated, FEAR NOT!  Come on, give this program a chance!!  I can only imagine what some of you might presume about experimental film, but I promise that none of these films will feature animal butchery, pretentiously abstract performance art, children screaming in agony or anything like that, and not one of them will contain a four-hour continuous shot of some guy’s crotch being painted blue. Instead, I picked films that in some way might appeal to a curious archivist – someone who is fascinated by moving images, particularly celluloid ones.  In other words, experimental films that deal technically or conceptually with aspects of film in a certain self-aware way, often with great humor, poetry, beauty, and innovation.  Some really fun, weird, and clever stuff will be shown.  None of them are available on DVD, and most of them will probably never show at a theater near you, either.  All the films will be screened in their original 16mm or 35mm format. We would like to thank the film-makers, and Canyon Cinema.

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Stop By Shoot Film

Co-Chairs:
Jonathan Barlow - Eastman Kodak Company
Randall J. Tack - Eastman Kodak Company

Stop By Shoot Film is a hands-on opportunity to capture images using a Super 16mm motion picture camera. Participants will learn the basics of camera operation, exposure and film emulsion choices. Led by a Kodak cinematographer, participants will work in small groups to practice various camera techniques while shooting various scenes. Each participant will receive a DVD to enable them to view their work. Scene creativity is encouraged. Pre-registration is required with a separate registration fee.

3:30pm - 3:45 pm
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 have a quick meeting or just hang out between sessions.

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Lost in the Archives? Unearthing Small Gauge Nontheatrical Films

Chair:
Jennifer Peterson - University of Colorado at Boulder

Speakers:
Jennifer Peterson - University of Colorado at Boulder
Oliver Gaycken - Temple University
Kaveh Askari - Western Washington University
Geoff Alexander - Academic Film Archive of North America

As the history of small-gauge nontheatrical and educational films begins to be written, this panel asks: how many of these films are out there lost in the archives? How can researchers find these long-neglected films, and how can archivists create useful databases for them? This discussion panel aims to make connections between researchers and archivists, and to establish some of the shared knowledge, methods, and goals of anyone interested in small-gauge nontheatrical films. Presented in conjunction with “Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film, Archives, & the Contemporary Classroom”

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Moment One: Two Case Studies of Preservation Oriented
Production Workflows

Chair:
Chris Lacinak - AudioVisual Preservation Solutions

Speakers:
Brian Hoffman - New York University
Jonathan Marmor - WNET
Kara Van Malssen - New York University

Traditional workflow models pose great challenges to preserving and managing content over the long term. After years of grappling with them, these challenges have become all too evident to the AMIA community. A new model of production has begun to evolve from this awareness, and with some surprising consequences. Join a group of brave souls that took on this mission as they share in their experiences defining this new model that will undoubtedly impact the future of archives.

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
The Reel Thing XXI Annex:
The Devil in the Details - Image Quality in the Digital World

Speakers:
Alexander Petukhov, Algosoft
Kevin Manbeck, MTI
Arne Nowak, Fraunhofer Institute

Digital image processing is a tool which is used to modify the appearance of scanned or transferred images which may be displayed in electronic media or transferred back to film.  Archivists need to reduce or conceal defects from the original material, but they are constrained by the cost of processing, and also wary of denaturing the look of the material. Correct projection speed is a critical factor in the digital representation of legacy materials. This panel addresses some of the issues, tools and problems in the area of digital processing and display.

7:00pm
AMIA ‘s Sixth Annual Restoration Screening
Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Grand Canyon (1958)

Join us for AMIA’s sixth annual Restoration Screening. The newly restored Sleeping Beauty, and Grand Canyon (1958). Directed by James Alger, produced by Walt Disney, Grand Canyon received the Oscar for Best Short Subject (Live Action) in 1958.

 

 

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