from Fox Movietone News, New York 1929
 
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBITION

This space will present original productions by invited artists, USC faculty and students,
and others who work with orphaned media material. It will also contain projects curated by
participating archives, guest curators, scholars and filmmakers.

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Iota

by
Carolyn Faber

Real Media:
view at archive.org

 

Using optical printing techniques, Iota explodes a moment in time captured on a
fragment of decaying film and attempts to look at artifacts of time, place and celluloid that are otherwise easily (dis)missed.

Screened at Orphans I in 1999

   

 

 

   
 

American Pop-Pop

by
Michael Conklin

 

This video uses found home movie footage to illustrate the life of the filmmaker's grandfather. Produced in a USC Media Arts Found Footage Filmmaking class, taught by Bill Morrison in the Fall 2000.

   

 

 

   
 

Coconuts for Books and Pencils

by
Joey
Hall


 

This video re-edits Fox Movietone News stories to disrupt and transform an imperialist narrative, and draw attention to ideologies that lurk beneath the surface. Produced in Media Arts Found Footage Filmmaking class, Fall 2000.

         
 

Women Aviators of the Silent(and Sound) Era

Edited by
Laura Kissel
and
Logan Cooper


(soon)

 

 

This video highlights outtakes and stories about women aviators from the Fox Movietone newsreels.

Screened at Orphans II in 2001

listen to the round table discussion on Women Aviators

 


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