Jo Clements is an artist whose work and PhD research is concerned with pedagogic films and their re-appropriation. Jo will screen ‘orphan’ film clips – motion pictures abandoned by their owners. Rescued, often found in obscure archives or private collections, car boot sales, junk shops, etc., they are mended digitally. Her ‘film’ is a montage of these ‘mended’ films, describing states of ‘brokenness.’ 
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George Willeman’s scan of frame from LIGHTS OF OLD BROADWAY (1925), a nitrate print belonging to actress Marion Davies. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn (before there was a -Mayer). “
Original paper print of THE BATTLE OF ELDERBUSH GULCH (1913), copyright deposit for the American Biograph motion picture.
MEND*RS symposium / Jo Clements
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NYC Cine Relics | Movie Journal by J. Hoberman
about Orphans in Space, John Lurie’s Super8 Men in Orbit, and William Shatner in South Carolina.
