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
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Credit title card. Glooscap Country. Directed by Margaret Perry, 1961. Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives film no. Fc 48
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GIV - Recommended Daily Allowance (Diyan Achjadi, 2002)
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Artist: Crista Dahl, Exhibition: Life Rhythm Retrospective), Photo: Ashley Tanasiychuk, from the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive, VIVO
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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Highlights: Archive/Counter-Archive 2019 Symposium
Check out the highlights and program from Archive/Counter-Archive's 2019 Symposium, held at the TIFF Bell Lightbox from December 12 - 14, 2019. The Symposium brought together over 70 participants from the A/CA network, as well as members of the public to free Keynote Presentations by Ross Lipman and Juana Suárez.
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Ad Hoc #26 Women Filmmakers, Embodiment, and Abstraction
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Room 222, Innis College, University of Toronto
2 Sussex Avenue
Toronto ON M5S 1J5
Canada
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This program presents eight short films created by women filmmakers between 1970-1995, which have been drawn from the collections of three experimental film distributors in the U.S. and Canada. Featuring Featuring little-seen films from Canyon, Film-Makers' Co-Op, and CFMDC.
