Re: CFP Visions of House and Home, JULY 24-26 2014

From: karan [[email protected]]

CFP Visions of House and Home, JULY 24-26 2014

Visions of House and Home.

Call for Papers and mark your calendars!
http://oldfilm.org/content/2014-nhf-summer-symposium-announced

Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium
Thursday, July 24 - Saturday, July 26, 2014

From the very earliest film of in-laws cavorting in the Roundhay Garden (18=
88), domestic settings have provided the backdrop and often the unintention=
al subject of amateur film. The organizers of the 2014 Northeast Historic F=
ilm Summer Symposium invite proposals featuring studies of amateur and non-=
theatrical films that examine house, home, and domesticity.

=93Wunderkino 4: Visions of House and Home" focuses on understanding how am=
ateur and non-theatrical films offer insight into daily life, domesticity, =
and the quotidian activity that has often been dismissed as mise en sc=E8ne=
. How does the performance of domesticity size or resize the frame? What ac=
tivities define house and home on film? How do notions and conventions of h=
ome frame regions, communities, and people in amateur films, industrial fil=
ms, and educational films? This year=92s theme is an effort to draw upon th=
e wide range of approaches that scholars, artists, filmmakers, and archivis=
ts bring to the study and use of amateur and non-theatrical film.

This is the fifteenth annual Symposium held by Northeast Historic Film. For=
 previous programs see http://www.oldfilm.org/content/symposia-and-roundtab=
les.

Wunderkino (=93wonder-cinema=94) are moving images that ignite our curiosit=
y and engagement and help us to rethink questions of creativity, complexity=
, rarity and the multiple uses and understandings of amateur and non-commer=
cial films.

We encourage (and expect) participants to incorporate examples of interesti=
ng moving images as part of their presentations. NHF houses a 125-seat cine=
ma with 35mm, 16mm, video, and DVD projection. In 2013 Northeast Historic F=
ilm received the Silver Light Award from the Association of Moving Image Ar=
chivists for significant contributions to the field. For a review of the 20=
12 Symposium by Leo Goldsmith, NYU, see the AMIA journal, The Moving Image,=
 Fall 2013.

The NHF Summer Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the h=
istory, theory, and preservation of amateur and nontheatrical moving images=
. For over a decade, the Symposium has been bringing together archivists, s=
cholars, and artists in an intimate setting for three days of viewing and d=
iscussing lesser-known, amateur, and found films. NHF is located in Buckspo=
rt, a town of 5,000 on the coast of Maine. For more info on NHF, please vis=
it www.oldfilm.org.

Presenters typically have 30-45 minutes in which to deliver their paper and=
 engage in discussion with their colleagues. The symposium is open to archi=
vists, artists and scholars from all disciplines. Please be advised that NH=
F is a non-profit organization. Unfortunately, we do not have resources to =
fund travel and lodging for conference presenters and participants. All pre=
senters and participants must register for the symposium.

Please send 250-500 word abstracts outlining your paper ideas and a brief c=
v via e-mail to: [email protected]

We are happy to discuss your presentation ideas with you in advance of a fo=
rmal submission. The Symposium Program Committee will begin reviewing propo=
sals on ApriI 20, 2014, and will finalize the program by May 10, 2014.

David Weiss, Executive Director
Northeast Historic Film
[email protected]


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