Small Gauge Symposium

**MrObvious** · August 8th, 2001, 08:30 PM

(I wish I were in Portland, OR sometimes.)

FROM THE FRAMEWORKS LIST:

Small Gauge Film Symposium
Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference
Portland, Oregon ? November 6-10, 2001
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A Small Gauge Film Symposium with four days of workshops, screenings and
presentations on film of all kinds on small gauges-in particular 8 mm 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 [email protected].
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 Orientation
? 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 Cinemath?que 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 Preliminary AMIA Conference Program, including the Symposium lineup, is
available at the AMIA Website, http://www.amianet.org/04_Annual/04c...3a_Program.pdf

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
[email protected].

For more information on the Small Gauge Symposium and the AMIA Conference
call
310-550-1300, or email [email protected].

**Alex** · August 9th, 2001, 12:31 AM

Very Cool Info.

Anyone in the area going to attend?

-Alex

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**Hanthx** · August 9th, 2001, 05:51 AM

ROAD TRIP!!

SC:OTT

**Alex** · August 11th, 2001, 09:20 PM

Chas-

You might want to check this out.

Your timing is early, but the people putting this on might know something.

Your trip to Portland might be an opportunity to get some rare "stock" shot for some upcoming project.

Good Luck.

-Alex

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