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THE MIX Wednesday, March 22, 2006 M... —I M— m A -A- V J 1—» Page 9 Films home Bi-annual event attracts film pros £ to USC campus niarjorie Riddle STAFF WRITER The USC film studies faculty will play host to the fifth Orphan Film Symposium in the Russell House Theater tonight through Saturday. The symposium, which features film scholars, historians, archivists and filmmakers, offers a full schedule of events for registered participants. Students and the general public can sit-in on screenings and discussions at no charge. Serving as an academic conference and film festival, the symposium seeks to study, screen and sometimes save films that have been neglected or abandoned by their original owners, said Dan Streible, USC associate professor of film studies and Orphan Film Symposium founder. • The now bi-annual event began in 1999. The 2004 Special to THE GAMECOCK In its fifth year, the Orphan Film Symposium seeks to study, screen and preserve neglected and abandoned films. Orphan Film Symposium brought 150 registered film professionals to USC, and more than 200 unregistered community participants attended. “The Orphan Film Symposium attracts scholars like myself, professionals, collectors, enthusiasts and preservationists,” said Dr. Devin Orgeron, assistant professor of film studies at North Carolina State University. “I also see the symposium as an important public service. Film is an incredibly rich part of Our cultural history, and preserving it is our responsibility.” Streible recommends local film enthusiasts to attend the symposium’s evening programs because there will be more watching and less talking than during the day’s events. Tonight’s events begin with screenings at 8 p.m. Bill Morrison, a New York filmmaker and president of New York-based Hypnotic Pictures, will introduce his new film “Outerborough” (2005). “Outerborough” is transformed footage of a trolley traveling from Manhattan to Brooklyn across the Brooklyn Bridge in the early 20th century. Morrison began working on “Outerborough” after the British Film Institute screened the original footage at the 2004 Orphan Film Symposium. Julie Hubbert will show “Scientists Invent New Musical Instrument” (1930), and Canadian filmmaker Caroline Martel will present “The Phantom of the Operator” (2005) tonight. “’The Phantom of the Operator’ started as a documentary on the histort of the telephone operators in North America,’ Martel said. “However, as I began to spend weeks and months with the 150 industrial publicity, training and scientific films I had gathered around the operators and the Bell System, my attitude towards the material radicall) became: ‘what is the storj these films fundamental!) reveal?”’ Martel says her film became “about the impaci of the corporate films themselves on the actua history of the operators.” She said the telephone operators deserve to be recognized for their key contributions to the networked world we live in today, because technological progress didn’t just happen naturally. “I wanted to make this film to give some visibility to the telephone operators’ history,” Martel said. Nico de Klerk of Amsterdam will introduce “Bits and Pieces Nr. 1 11” from the Netherlands Film Museum Thursday at 8 p.m. Gustav Deutsch of Vienna will follow with his works. Rick Prelinger will curate Friday’s screenings at 8 p.m. Film • 10 Hello, my name is Rachael Taft First-year advertising student WHAT IS SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT YOUR HOMETOWN? “The movie ‘House Arrest’ was filmed in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.” WHAT’S YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT? “I got locked in a bathroom in Austraila and when I came out there were like 40 people staring at me.” * DO YOU HAVE ANY HOBBIES THAT YOU REALLY ENJOY? “I like photography, reading, eating chocolate, traveling and hanging out with my friends.” WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK? ‘“Siren’s of Titan’ by Kurt Vonnegut because it’s crazy and interesting.” IF YOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS WHAT WOULD YOU BUY? “I’d buy a personal airplane, a house on the beach, a HELLO • 10 Bring your own (cover) band Spring band battle features nothing but cover bands Alexis Arnone THE MIX EDITOR Tonight the people of Carolina Productions are offering a chance for students and members of the community to B.Y.O.B. No, not that “B.” They are hosting their annual Bring Your Own Band— a battle of the bands. CP puts on two battles each year, one each semester. “The fall semester is just for USC students,” said Ashley Kempson, a third-year marketing and finance student and concerts commissioner for CP. “The one in the spring is open to the public.” But what’s so different about this battle? Each band will be playing solely covers. “We had done a tribute style a couple years ago. We wanted to mix things up again this semester and try something new,” Kempson said. Carolina Productions has been putting on the Battle of the Bands since before 1998, which is as far back a^ the current members I [ Special to THE GAMECOCK Kilcoy performs at last fall’s Bring Your Own Band competition sponsored by Carolina Productions. This semester’s battle features bands performing covers. however, has only beer going on for four or fiv< years. CP wants to kee{ B.Y.O.B. to mainly USC students, but it did advertisi in local music stores arounc campus to generate somi non-USC interest. George Stevens, a third year visual communication: student, has been going tc the Battle of the Bands fo a couple of years. “They’re always prett] fun. I (got the itch to pla; and I saw a poster for it am i thought, ‘I’ll give it a shot,”’ he said. i Stevens was all set to hit 1 the stage tonight until an : Exacto knife accident for a [ class project incapacitated : his finger. “About ten minutes after I cut my finger open, they ; called to tell me that I got > in. I just said, ‘I was actually • about to call you,”’ Stevens said. r Although he won’t be r performing tonight, Stevens 1 had planned on covering the musical talents of Ryan Adams. Stevens has been playing the guitar for about six and a half years and the harmonica, which he would have also performed with, for two or three. “I’m a huge fan of (Adams) and he’s got a decent following on the college level,” Stevens said. “I planned on playing ‘Come Pick Me Up,’ a fan favorite, ‘New York, New York’ is his BVOB • 10 \ Special to THE GAMECOCK “The Vagina Monologues" will run from Thursday through Saturday at the law school auditorium. Monologues to celebrate women Proceeds from play benefit womens charity Nathan House THE GAMECOCK Vagina. It can be a scary word, one you don’t utter in polite company. It’s a word that elicited a bashful giggle in our younger days, and is now a gaping hole of a subject that most people rarely venture into. Society has assigned a dark taint to the word, and when conversations actually do turn to it, they Quickly come to an uncomfortable subject change. It is this taboo around the word that causes many people to react strongly when they hear that “The Vagina Monologues,” a bestselling play by Eve Ensler, is coming to campus this Thursday and running through Saturday. The play consists of a series of monologues performed by women about their vaginas. They get up on stage and talk about what mm • 10 4