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 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.