To Save and Project: The 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

On Saturday, January 31 at 2:00 pm, the Museum of Modern Art, New York will present Orphans at MoMA: At Play – Amateurs, Animators and Avant-Grades”as part of To Save and Project: The 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation. Numerous films curated by the NYU Orphan Film Symposium, which celebrates the diversity of amateur and experimental cinema, will be screened for the general public. The screening will include a 40-minute presentation of Japanese Paper Films with a brief introduction by Prof.Eric Faden (Bucknell University) who is the founder of the Japanese Paper Film Project, and will be accompanied by live performance of Duo YUMENO, an award-winning koto-cello duo.

(Photo by Valerio Greco / The 44th Pordenone Silent Film Festival)