Presented by Community Screen and the Greater Philadelphia Film Office In Collaboration with The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, International House, the Secret Cinema and Pennsylvania Hospital.
Symposium Sponsors
Drexel University College of Medicine Archives, Hollywood Vaults, International House of Philadelphia, The Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine Division, Orphan Film Symposium, Penn Humanities Forum, Pennsylvania Hospital, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Philadelphia Cinema & Media Seminar, University of Pennsylvania Department of Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania Health System
This program has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities' We the People initiative on American History.
The Medical Film Symposium will examine—through screenings, presentations and papers—the relationship between moving images and medical science. Medical films constituted one of the earliest film genres, but the vast majority of these films are unseen and unknown today. The symposium will examine various categories of medical films: actualities and documentations of medical procedures, training films for health professionals, hygiene tutorials and contemporary medical imaging.
Symposium Schedule
January 20 - 23
* Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.
Screening of A Man to Remember at International House (presented by Nico de Klerk of the Nederlands Filmmuseum)
* Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
Film screening at International House (curated by Barbara Hammer)
* Friday, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Tour of Philadelphia's medical history sites.
Requires separate registration. More information here
* Friday, 7:00 p.m.
Film screening at the historic Pennsylvania Hospital (curated by Andrew Lampert and Greg Pierce, open to symposium attendees only)
* Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Presentations at the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
* Saturday, 8:00 p.m.
Film screening at Moore College of Art (curated by Skip Elsheimer & Jay Schwartz)