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ANNOUNCEMENT: Small Gauge Film Symposium



Small Gauge Film Symposium
Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference
Portland, Oregon
November 6-10, 2001

A Small Gauge Film Symposium with four days of workshops, screenings and
presentations  on film of all kinds on small gauges - in particular 8mm and
Super 8 - will take place November 6-10, 2001, in Portland, Oregon, as part
of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Annual Conference.

The purpose of the Symposium is to share knowledge on small format films
including technical issues, topics relating to presentation, appraisal,
documentation, reuse and ethics, and the concerns of artists and amateur
creators, as well as moving image archivists and other custodians.

In addition to the serious side, the Symposium is dedicated to the joy and
diversity of small gauge film and will be an opportunity to meet people who
share common interests.  AMIA Conference registration includes participation
in all panels and screenings (there is an additional charge for workshops).

The AMIA conference program will also include other sessions relevant to
those with personal and professional interests in this area.  At the
conference, held in the Portland Marriott Downtown, hundreds of
representatives from archives, production libraries, television networks,
major studios, laboratories, and universities will gather.  A Vendor
Exhibition is an opportunity for conference participants to learn about the
latest resources. The Reel Thing, an advanced technical symposium held on
Wednesday, will present examples of the latest laboratory work.

The conference is open to all, regardless of membership in AMIA. For more
info call 310-550-1300, or email amia@amianet.org.

Development was assisted by funding from the Library of Congress's National
Film Preservation Board and Sony Pictures Entertainment, which hosted a June
2000 Roundtable, and has made a donation of $5,000 to AMIA to help sponsor
the Symposium. A grant of $5,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts
will support honoraria and travel for artists to share their work with AMIA.

SMALL GAUGE SESSIONS:
A Hands-on Small Gauge Technical Workshop
Mighty Small Gauge Film: The Long View
A Primer on Restoring and Preserving Small Gauge Films
Artists and Moving Image Archives, Detailed Decisions
Big as Life:  An American History of 8mm Films.  A Case History of the
Museum of  Modern Art and San Francisco Cinemathèque Exhibition
The Research Value of Amateur Film
Small Gauge Roadshow: Appraising Small Gauge and Amateur Materials
Documentation and Annotation
Documenting our Lives
Reuse: The Ethics of Using Personal Films in Public Ways
A Brainstorming Session on Future Umbrella Projects for Amateur and Small
Gauge Films.

The final Symposium lineup will be available at the AMIA Website,
www.amianet.org, and described in detail in the conference program.

SCREENINGS
There will be four curated small gauge screenings offering insight into the
worlds of home movies, cine clubs, artists' films, and commercially
distributed films of interest to archivists and scholars.

If It Moves We'll Shoot It:  A Screening of Films created by California
Amateur Film Clubs. In attendance will be Sid Laverents, the creator of
Multiple Sidosis, a club hit named to the National Film Registry in 2000.
Curated by Melinda Stone.

Bringing the Greatest Stars to the Home: Entertainment Films in Small
Formats.  Rare titles in 16mm, 8mm and 9.5mm including clips from
promotional films, tinted films, two-color processes, animations, scenics,
and Hollywood and European features. Curated by Rusty Casselton and David
Pierce.

Big as Life: A Retrospective of Small-Gauge Artists Cinema in America.
Performances by the artists' group silt, a three-projector Super-8
performance by Scott Stark, and films by Phil Solomon, Janis Crystal Lipzin,
Anne Robertson, Stan Brakhage, Marjorie Keller, and Saul Levine. Curated by
Steve Anker.

Home Movies as Folk Art. In many cases these modest, though often
beautifully made, films provide us with the only first-hand visual records
of the significant rituals and routines of ordinary people and their lives
we will ever have. In addition, these films convey a vivid sense of their
times unsurpassed by any other medium.  Curated by Steve Anker.

LISTSERV
To participate in the Small Gauge listserv, email Dwight Swanson at
dwswan@hotmail.com.

All AMIA members will receive AMIA Conference Registration Packages this
summer. For more information on the Small Gauge Symposium and the AMIA
Conference call 310-550-1300, or email amia@amianet.org.

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