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Bastard Film Encounter
The Bastard Film Encounter (BFE) is a USA-based film festival and conference established in 2013 which encourages the viewing and discussion of films and videos which are "poorly executed, offensive in content, or document the offensive." These films have often been orphaned by their original creators or the institution in which they are held as well as the archivist(s) charged with the film or video's care-taking. A bastard film is sometimes described as the “terribly-behaved cousin of the orphan film”. The participants and attendees are usually archivists, scholars, academics, enthusiasts, and collectors in the world of film and video content.

Purpose, creation, and history
Film festivals are an important form of curation and typically focus on a particular genre, length or specific region. However, there are some films that are not easily categorized and possibly defy conventional tastes and opinions.

The Bastard Film Encounter has allowed for a reevaluation of some of these ignored or hidden moving images. BFE's purpose is to question the "why" of these "bastard" films as well as the "what" to do with them in a learned and academic setting, enabling experts in the field to discuss the issues of both past and future historical context, ethics and consent, and distribution of time and attention in regards to these sometimes dismissed and often forgotten films. Archivists and scholars are pushed to question their responsibility as stewards of film, culture, and history by reexamining what items in a collection have benefited from scarce resources in the past, and whether there is room for the "bastard" film to also be preserved, catalogued, digitized, and publicized. BFE stimulates discussion regarding the purpose of media archives, how they should they be organized, whom should they serve, whose story they tell, and how they tell it.

The inaugural Bastard Film Encounter was held in April 2013 in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was co-founded by Skip Elsheimer, founder at A/V Geeks LLC; Marsha Gordon, Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University ; and Dwight Swanson, independent specialist in amateur film and regional film production. Like other more traditional film festivals and academic conferences, there is a call for proposals and a carefully planned schedule of presentations. CITATION NEEDED.

The Bastard Film Encounter took place biannually in Raleigh from 2013 through 2017, after which it was relocated to Baltimore, Maryland for the 2019 BFE. The BFE screenings and discussions typically take place in non-traditional meeting spaces, with a particular fondness for bars and performance spaces.

The goal of the encounter is to encourage discussion over the cultural and historical worth of each film, both now as well as in the future. Participants debate whether there is room in the archival sphere for films which may appear to be of limited (or non-existent) artistic, scholarly, historic, or cultural value.

The event name comes from the word ‘bastard’ (something unusual) and the word ‘encounter’ (unexpectedly come across something).

The Bastard Film Encounter always hosts a keynote speaker. Previous keynote speakers include Dino Everett, Archivist at USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive; filmmaker and director Andrew Lampert, and film producer and Brian Frye, Associate Professor of Law at University of Kentucky College of Law.

The 2019 Bastard Film Encounter began April 25 and runs through April 27, 2019. The keynote speakers for 2019 are Snowden Becker, MLIS Program Director at UCLA Department of Information Studies and Liz Coffey, ex-film conservator at Harvard Film Archive.

Unusual characteristics
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Talent breaks
In 2013, after two days of watching difficult films, film collector Greg Pierce spontaneously allowed artist/performer/nurse Joan Vorderbruggen to remove his stitches on stage – creating their own spectacle of future "hard to watch" footage and a difficult to top "talent" entry.

Enforced "talent breaks" to provide some levity and/or group therapy between the often taxing and triggering media content.

The Bastards Karaoke Band and karaoke performances

Rejection of traditional conference presentation styles
No powerpoints allowed. But you can use an overhead projector and transparencies.

Old-school and ethics-based approach
Social media blackout on 20% or more of presentations for reasons of permissions, ethics, consent, etc

Info about this year's program

http://bastardfilmencounter.com/bastards-2019

SUSAN NOTE - not sure if it is appropriate to have these programs listed out like this? Is it better to just provide external links to the past programs?
=== 2013 === “George Lucas and his Bastard Legacy” – Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks)

“Abandoned Animal Scraps” – Dan Streible (Orphan Film Project)

“Bastards Clips Reel (Sexcerpts ‘70)” –Greg Pierce (Custodian, The Orgone Archive, Pittsburgh 13, Penna)

“Taxi Driver: the Condensed Features Version” – Liz Coffey (Harvard Film Archive)

“Death is a Straight Line” – Rich Remsberg (Freelance archival footage researcher)

“The Surprise Gift” – Mark Garrett Cooper (University of South Carolina)

“East Lansing (aka “The Penis Film”)” – Dwight Swanson (Center for Home Movies)

“Enema Medley” – Albert Steg (Independent Collector)

“Razzberried Treasure” – Dino Everett (USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive)

“Dysphoric Documentarian: The Unsettled Genius of Central Jersey” – Rick Prelinger

“Dallas Love Field” – Kelli Hix

“Taking it to the Mat: Footage from the Golden Age of Regional Wrestling with Raleigh’s own Curtis ‘Toad’ White” – Devin Orgeron and Melissa Dollman

“Anatomy of Melancholy” – Brian Frye

“Mr Clean” – Greg Pierce

“Sabro Coffee Commercial” – Tom Whiteside (Duke Technical Services/Durham Cinematheque)

“Pictures at an Execution” – Brian L. Frye (University of Kentucky College of Law)

“African Circumcision Footage” – Snowden Becker (UCLA Department of Information Studies)

“Operation Teeth” – Lydia Pappas (University of South Carolina)

“Wringo and Unidentified Swedish Travelogue” – Jay Schwartz (The Secret Cinema)

“Archiving Failure” – Carolyn Faber (Kartemquin Films)

“Muckracking and Mudslinging: Journalism in Post-War Germany” – Greg Wilsbacher (University of  South Carolina)

“The Stages of Corporate Grief” – Anonymous, played by Hobert Thompson

“Max Roach and the Cultural Mismatch of Look Up and Live” – J. Carlos Kase (University of North Carolina Wilmington)

“Guns and Kids” – Joan Vorderbruggen

City Rehabilitation #1” – Heather Heckmann (University of South Carolina)

“Freeze In” – Marsha Gordon (North Carolina State University)                                                                  

“Are Bastards Really Worth Saving and Showing?” -Martin Johnson (Independent Scholar), Moderator. Dan Streible & Rick Prelinger, Commentators

=== 2015 === “ASMR Makeup Haul Video” -Dwight Swanson,

“Party Tape” -Jason Evans Groth

“A Genuine United Statesian” -John Klacsmann

“The Dinosaur Puzzle” -Skip Elsheimer

“Miss Hospitality” -Tom Whiteside

“Man of the Forest” - Rich Remsberg

“The Borax Man” -Travis Wagner

“Really Racist Newsreel Humor” & “Freakshow Home Movies” -Dan Streible

“Husband Coached Childbirth” -Katrina Dixon

“Evacuate the Building, or, The Incident,” -Anne Wells

“Transformation of Crystal”-Albert Steg & Robert Vaszari

“The Art of Sex” -John Kostka

“Cows in a Meadow” -Lydia Pappas

“My Black Movie” -Jeff Lambert

“That Bastard Magoo in Times Square” -Greg Pierce

“The Knowledge Industry” & “Allergy Test Films” -Stephen Parr

“History of Totalitarianism”-Brian Real

“Begotten” -Janice Allen, E. Elias Merhige

“Old Sparky Does a Dirty Deed” -Lydia Pappas

=== 2017 === “The other Ro-Revus”- Skip Elsheimer

“Coast Town Youth” - Travis Wagner

“Colorization, Inc. Promo”- Brian L. Frye

“Subliminal Sex”- Stephen Parr

“Portrait of the Archivist as a Young Man”- John Kostka

“Window Water Baby Passing”- Rick Prelinger

“Bonfanti Jewelry Surveillance Footage, 1981”- Antonella Bonfanti

“The Bastard Did It”- Tom Whiteside

“Spotter Test Reel”- Liz Coffey

“Aetheric Aviation” - Stephen Parr

“747 Wing Destruction” - Dan Erdman

“The Grooving of Dan Magrew” - Cinema Bomar

“Paul Anka’s ‘Jubilation’ music video, with animation by Jules Engel”- Stephanie Sapienza

“Singing Machine” - Greg Pierce

“Shock Jock New Year’s Train Wreck”- Sara Chapman

“Rich Cat, Poor Cat”- Liz Coffey –

“Hall of Shame”- Josephine McRobbie and Jason Evans Groth

“Continent Ileal Reservoir (Koch) An Alternative to Urinary Diversion” - Dino Everett

“Operation Dry Pants – New Approaches to Warehousing the Mentally Challenged, or Why the 60s Weren’t as Great as we Think.” - Eric Cheevers

“Dome I, Children I” - Tom Colley

“Crash Clip”- Amy Sloper

“How to Bag a Trophy Gobbler and Other Life Lessons from the  VHS Era of Instructional Hunting Videos”- Carlos Kase

“Jake Leg Films”- Rich Remsberg

“SCAR 129 Cripple Clinic Film”- Lydia Pappas

“Durational Disorderly Binge Drunking” - John Klacsmann

“Shoe Abuse” - Dwight Swanson