Screenings

5:00 PM (Pacific)
Introduction & Screening: Detour (1945, d. Edgar G. Ulmer)

From the gutters of Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run—a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage’s snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long available only in substandard public domain prints, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Cinémathèque Française. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

8:00 AM (Pacific)
Screening: A/V Geeks in the Morning

They say “16mm films aren’t just a popular film format — it’s a way of life!”  A special AMIA edition of A/V Geeks popular lunchtime streaming show. Thank you, Skip Elsheimer, for starting our day with a some 16mm.

2:15 PM – 3:30 PM (Pacific)
Screening & Discussion: Sessão ABPA
Debora Butruce , President of ABPA (Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Preservation)
Lila Foster, Institutional Relations Director of ABPA

Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Preservation’s (ABPA) mission is to contribute to the development and technical, scientific and cultural improvement of professionals working in the field of preservation, promoting the work of archivists and researchers. In this sense, we promote the ABPA Session, a film program that gathers short films preserved in Brazilian archives. This action aims to give visibility to the work of audiovisual preservationists which helps to build the memory of Brazilian cinema, bringing to light films that are rarely seen and that have undergone recent processes of restoration or digitization. The sessions is also a starting point for discussions about the challenges faced by the field of audiovisual preservation in Brazil and the importance of dialogue with filmmakers and the wider audience. This program is composed by Dance Hall (Gafieira, Gerson Tavares, 1972), Home-Daycare (Creche-lar, Maria Luiza Aboim, 1978), Street Carnival – Porto Alegre (Carnaval de rua – Porto Alegre, Wilkens Filmes Ltda., c. 1950), Black Panther (Pantera negra, Jô Oliveira, 1968) and Eclipse (Antonio Moreno, 1984).

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Pacific)
Archival Screening Night
Brittan Dunham, ASN Cochair
Genevieve Havemeyer-King, ASN Cochair

Archival Screening Night is a showcase for AMIA members’ recent acquisitions, discoveries and preservation efforts. The program represents the magnificent spectrum of media formats, works, and collections protected and preserved by the AMIA community.

1:30 PM (Pacific)
Screening: Coded Bias

(2020 Doc) Director Shalini Kantayya illuminates our mass misconceptions about AI and emphasizes the urgent need for legislative protection. Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased  against? When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that most facial-recognition software does not accurately identify  darker-skinned faces and the faces of women, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. As it turns out, AI is not neutral, and women are leading the charge to ensure our civil rights are protected.

3:30 PM (Pacific)
Screening: Nationtime-Gary

(1972 Doc) In March 1972, an estimated 10,000 black politicians, activists and artists congregated at the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, with the express purpose of establishing a black political agenda. Attendees included Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Amiri Baraka, Richard Hatcher, Charles Diggs and H. Carl McCall. Also in attendance was prolific documentarian of black history, culture and politics William Greaves. His filmed account of this historic event, narrated by Sidney Poitier with poetry recited by Harry Belafonte, was at the time thought to be too radical for television broadcast and was drastically edited.