Symposia and Roundtables

2021 Symposium cancelled. The 2020 theme "Technology, Invention, Tinkerers, & Gadgets" will now take place in 2022.

Summer Film Symposia

Since 2000, Northeast Historic Film has organized an annual themed gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of moving images. The Symposium is noted for bringing together archivists, scholars, and artists in an intimate setting.

2000 Film Preservation, Study and Use
2001 Home Movies and Privacy
2002 Close Readings: Seeing Amateur Films in Important Ways
2003 Toward Access, Interpretation and Understanding
2004 The Moving Images as Biography
2005 Amateur Fiction Films
2006 The Working Life
2007 Time Out: Images of Play and Leisure
2008 City and Country
2009 Ways of Watching
2010 Filmic Representations of Indigenous Peoples
2011 Das Wunderkino: A Cinematic Cabinet of Curiosities
2012 Wunderkino 2: On The Varieties of Cinematic Experience
2013 Wunderkino 3: Visions of Travel and Mobility
2014 Wunderkino 4: Visions of House and Home
2015 Wunderkino 5: Moving Images of War and Peace
2016 Screening New England: 100 Years of Regional Moving Images
2017 Regional Moving Image Collections and Archives in the 21st Century
2018 The Political / The Personal: the Global and Local Function of Regional Media
2019 A is for Amateur
2020: Cancelled
2021: Technology, Invention, Tinkerers & Gadgets

Roundtables

From 2002 to 2004, Northeast Historic Film hosted an educators' Roundtable to support Maine's Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), which provided laptop computers to all 7th and 8th grade public school students and teachers. To learn more about Maine's digital learning initiative, visit Maine Learns.