Welcome to Archive/Counterarchive
Archive/Counter-Archive is a project dedicated to activating and remediating audiovisual archives created by women, Indigenous Peoples, the LGBT2Q+ community, and immigrant communities. Political, resistant, and community-based, counter-archives disrupt conventional narratives and enrich our histories.
activating Canada's audiovisual image heritage
News and Events
Check out what's on at Archive/Counter-Archive below! Visit our News and Events page for complete listing.
PIX Film Gallery
1411 Dufferin St Unit C
Toronto ON
Hinterland Remixed: Toronto Book Launch + Screening
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to host the Toronto book launch of Andrew Burke’s HINTERLAND REMIXED, featuring a special screening of rare and unusual films from 1970s Canada! Following the film programme will be a conversation with Andrew Burke led by Geoff Pevere (Program Director, Rendez-Vous With Madness Film Festival).
Davies Foundation Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
36 University Avenue
Kingston ON
Unpacking Conversation: Intergenerational Archival Engagement
This public roundtable event with Arnait collective members presents an intergenerational conversation about the exhibition Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations and the process of revisiting and remediating the Arnait video archives.
Paradise on Bloor
1006 Bloor Street West
Toronto ON
Special Screening: ZERO PATIENCE (1993)
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted co-host this special screening of John Greyson's ZERO PATIENCE, presented in partnership with Paradise Cinema's Queerly Beloved series and the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival! This will be the premiere of a newly restored version of the film. The digital transfer is a result of a collaboration between A/CA, Vtape and the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen's University.
Case Studies
Our Case Studies examine a range of themes, media, histories, and geographies through a selection of Canadian, community-based, and independent archives and collections.
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CFMDC Come Down screening
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Arnait Video Productions
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Friends of Shoal Lake 40, Water Action, Jan. 2017, Reflects in Water stencil series, ongoing, artist: Leah Decter, funded by Winnipeg Arts Council.
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James Redsky, Birch Bark Migration Scroll (103 ft), permission: Angelina Redsky
Working Groups
Working Groups provide a resource for the Case Studies and extend the research through papers, policy recommendations, workshops, exhibitions, and public talks.
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