Welcome to Archive/Counterarchive
Archive/Counter-Archive is a project dedicated to activating and remediating audiovisual archives created by Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), Black communities and People of Colour, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities. Political, resistant, and community-based, counter-archives disrupt conventional narratives and enrich our histories.
activating Canada's audiovisual heritage
News and Events
Check out what's on at Archive/Counter-Archive below! Visit our News and Events page for complete listing.
Publication | A Leap in the Dark 30th Anniversary Digitized Reissue
A newly digitized open-access version of Allan Klusaček and Ken Morrison's 1992 edited collection, A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art and Contemporary Cultures, has been rereleased alongside
Video Recording | Working Paper Series | Johanna Laub: Archives In/As Ruins
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Johanna Laub's Working Papers Series talk, Archives In/As Ruins: Moving Image Art And The Anarchaeology Of Archival Debris, which took place on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
A/CA Call for Papers for FMSAC 2023
Are you planning on presenting research related to A/CA at the Annual Conference of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (May 27-29th, 2023, York University, Toronto)? Please let us know by December 16th!
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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Nova Scotia Film Bureau Logo. Grounds For Fishing. Directed by Margaret Perry, 1955. Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives film no. Fc 51
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GIV - Les Marcheuses (Anne Golden, Petunia Alves, Stella Valiani, 1995)
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Women in Focus Society, from the Crista Dahl Media Archive, VIVO
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Survival of the Delirious, 1988, 15:00, by Michael Balser and Andy Fabo
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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