About the Event
Oxford scholar Adina Brădeanu, one of our foremost film historians, tells the turbulent story in the Stalinist 1950s of the Sahia Studio, the documentary production outlet of communist Romania, at the Orphan Film Symposium, organized by the NYU Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies and Tisch School of the Arts together with the Museum of the Moving Image. The Romanian-British film historian will illustrate the fight of Romanian documentarians to fend off the artistically devastating consequences of Soviet-inspired policies with "A Film Studio in Bucharest Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary", an "orphaned" production of 1955 film that, for political as well as aesthetic reasons, was shelved indefinitely by the studio bosses.
Dr. Adina Brădeanu's participation at the event taking place at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens (Kaufman Astoria Studios) between April 10-13 is supported by RCI New York.
14th Orphan Film Symposium (April 10-13)
Theme: Work & Play
The Orphan Film Symposium is a major film event jointly organized by The NYU Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, and the Museum of the Moving Image. For three full days, scholars, archivists, artists, curators, preservationists, and other advocates from all over the world, involved in studying, saving, and screening neglected films, will offer presentations and engage in conversations, which will be followed by evening screenings totalizing more than 27 hours of programming. More information on the Orphan Film Symposium website.
Time & Location
Saturday, April 13, 2024 @ 11:50 AM | The Museum of the Moving Image | RSVP
About the Researcher
Dr. Adina Brădeanu is research associate at the Oxford Research Centre in The Humanities with an interdisciplinary background in modern languages and literatures, cinema, and political studies. She is also the Subject Consultant for Romanian Studies at Taylor Institution Library (Bodleian Libraries). Following work in the audio-visual archive of an ethnography museum in Bucharest (National Museum of the Romanian Peasant), she conducted historical and ethnographic research on the institutional culture of a documentary studio (The Sahia Studio) operating in Romania between 1950 and 1990. Adina curated "VINTAGE SAHIA", a digitization and outreach project (2013-2019), which resulted in a set of pioneering film resources for research and education. More recently, she worked on the interplay between memory and film practice, political violence and cinematic imagination, and on “ephemeral” non-fiction films as sources for historical knowledge.