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Orson Welles: A Centennial Celebration and Symposium kicks off on Tuesday evening at Indiana University.
Chimes at Midnight will be screened on Tuesday evening. The four-day symposium begins Wednesday and will include keynote addresses, academic sessions, paper presentations, a major exhibit of Welles materials, evening special presentations featuring introductions and discussions with guest scholars, filmmakers and archivists, tours of IU’s facilities and collections, and social events.
Guests include Catherine Benamou, Joseph McBride, Patrick McGilligan, James Naremore, Marguerite Rippy, Jonathan Rosenbaum, A. Brad Schwartz and Chuck Workman.
An ongoing exhibit of rare and unique items from the Welles collection at Lilly Library coincides with the events.
The symposium schedule is as follows:
Wednesday, April 29
4 p.m. – Panel presentation: “Welles and Radio: The Mercury Theatre on the Air and the Act of Media Translation” Moderated by Barbara Klinger.
A. Brad Schwartz – Chaos, Panic, and Magic: The Creation of the War of the Worlds Broadcast; Jacob Smith – Orson Welles’s ‘Hell on Ice’ and Radio at the End of the World; Shawn VanCour – Literary Adaptation and the Problem of Voiceover Narration in War of the Worlds
7 p.m. – Screening: The Magnificent Ambersons with analysis of original cut by Joseph McBride
Thursday, April 30
8 a.m. – Panel presentation: “Welles and Technology” Moderated by Stephanie DeBoer.
Lisa Gotto – F for Future: How Orson Welles anticipated the digital age; Matthew Solomon – An Ambivalent Anachronism: Welles and Silent Pictures; Julie Turnock – Using the Optical Printer Like a Paint Brush: The RKO Effects Department, Citizen Kane and the Myth of Deep Focus
10 a.m. – Panel presentation: “Investigations in the Archive” Moderated by Rebecca Baumann.
Vivian Halloran – The Performance of Voodoo in Macbeth; Adalberto Müller – Dracula, Kurtz and Kane: The Evil Forces in Orson Welles’ Early Work; Shelby Plummer – Performance of Femininity in Horse Eats Hat
10 a.m. –Panel presentation: “Welles and Radio: ‘War of the Worlds’ and Orson Welles’ Radio Legacy” Moderated by Greg Waller.
Jennifer Hyland Wang – After the Martians: Orson Welles and the Invasion of ‘Daytime’ in the War of the Worlds Controversy; Josh Shepperd – The Impact of War of the Worlds upon Reception Research and Censorship Discourses at the FCC and CBS; Eleanor Patterson – Orson Welles Radio Legacy: A history of ‘War of the Worlds’ circulation and engagement in post-network radio culture
12:45 p.m. – Keynote Address – James Naremore
2 p.m. – Screening: Magician: The Astonish Life and Work of Orson Welles with Chuck Workman in attendance
4:30 p.m. – Reception at Lilly Library
7 p.m. – Double Feature Screening: The Immortal Story and F For Fake
Friday, May 1
8:30 a.m. – Panel presentation: “Title TBA” Moderated by Darlene Sadlier
Neyde Branco – F for Fake: An Essay an Authorship and the Role of the Market; Darlene Sadlier – Orson Welles on the Air: Hello Americans; Patrick McGilligan – TBA
10:30 a.m. – Panel presentation: “Welles’s Public Contexts” Moderated by Joan Hawkins
James Gilmore – Deep Focus: The Welles Correspondences and the Struggle Against Postwar Anti-Semitism; Sidney Gottlieb – Orson Welles, Journalist: The New York Post Columns; Susan Ohmer – The Presidential Politics of Citizen Kane; Robert Kroll – Brevity is the Soul: Evaluating Orson Welles’ commercials and voice-overs
10:30 a.m. – Panel presentation: “Welles: New Approaches” Moderated by Craig Simpson.
Vincent Longo – Around the World: ‘Aesthetic Limbo’ and the Theatre/Film Hybrid; David Stimilli – Slander and Blackmail: on Welles and Kafka; M. George Stevenson – Circular Logic and the Logic of Circles: Constructing Metaphorical Space in Orson Welles’ The Trial; Joshua Vasquez – The Fine Art of Invention: Orson Welles’ Remembrance of History in Ceiling Unlimited and Hello Americans
1 p.m. – Keynote Address – Jonathan Rosenbaum “Oja Kodar’s Collaborative Work with Orson Welles”
A study of Oja Kodar’s work as a collaborator in the late works and projects of Orson Welles—chiefly as writer and actress, but in other capacities as well (e.g., designer of costumes and props on The Merchant of Venice, assistant director on The Magic Show, co-director (on one sequence) of The Other Side of the Wind, and slate holder and/or focus puller on multiple projects).
3 p.m. – Screening: Too Much Johnson presented with live commentary
5 p.m. – Dinner
8 p.m. – Panel Discussion: The Other Side of the Wind
Panelists include: Joseph McBride, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Josh Karp (Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind), Filip Jan Rymsza (Managing Partner, Royal Road Entertainment, Producer, The Other Side of the Wind) and James Naremore (Moderator)
Saturday, May 2
Morning Tours of Lilly Library and IU Libraries Moving Image Archive
1 p.m. – Panel presentation: “Panel Title TBD” Moderated by James Naremore.
Francois Thomas – 1953-6: The Filmorsa Years; Marguerite Rippy – Macbeth and Beyond: Welles and Harlem; Matt Hauske – Staging the Impossible: Orson Welles’s Moby Dick—Rehearsed; Catherine Benamou – Orson Welles’s Itineraries, In and Through It’s All True 1941-42
3 p.m. – Screening: Unreleased and rare Welles footage
presented with live commentary
7 p.m. – Screening: Touch of Evil
9:30 p.m. – Screening: The Trial
Sunday, May 3
3 p.m. – Screening: Macbeth
6:30 p.m. – Screening: Mr. Arkadin
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