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Oana Spinu, Before Tomorrow (production still), copyright Arnait Video Productions, 2009

Exhibition Tour of Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations

Davies Foundation Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
36 University Avenue
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

This free, lunch-hour exhibition featuring "Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations" is available on a drop-in basis.  A friendly and informed community docent will meet you in the Atrium before the guided gallery tour. This exhibition features video works, ephemera and production material created by Arnait Video Productions, the world’s leading women-centered Inuit filmmaking collective. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Archive/Counter-Archive and the Vulnerable Media Lab.
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Still from SLIPSTREAM (2018) by Jenn E. Norton

Working Papers Series: Jenn E. Norton | Imaging the Past

Free Times Cafe
320 College St
Toronto ON M5T 1S3
Canada

Join us for the third iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different Universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. To kick off the new year, our speaker is Jenn E. Norton, a PhD candidate in the Visual Arts program at York University. Jenn E. Norton’s talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student curators, Michael Marlatt and Axelle Demus.
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Arnait Video Productions, Production shots from Before Tomorrow, 2008, © Arnait Video Productions. Courtesy of Arnait Video Productions.

Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations Exhibition Launch

Davies Foundation Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
36 University Avenue
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

This exhibition features video works, ephemera and production material created by Arnait Video Productions, the world’s leading women-centered Inuit filmmaking collective. Arnait represents the voices of Inuit women across generations, addressing traditional knowledge and contemporary life. It is part of Arnait’s March 2020 artist residency at Queen’s Vulnerable Media Lab, which includes intergenerational dialogues, workshops, and screenings. Presented in collaboration with Archive/Counter-Archive and the Vulnerable Media Lab.
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Ad Hoc #26

Ad Hoc #26 Women Filmmakers, Embodiment, and Abstraction

Room 222, Innis College, University of Toronto
2 Sussex Avenue
Toronto ON M5S 1J5
Canada

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.
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Juana Suarez

From Footnote to Main Text: Working with Minor Audiovisual Archives in Latin America with special guest Juana Suárez

TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada

Archive/Counter-Archive and TIFF Higher Learning are delighted to welcome special guest Juana Suárez to deliver a keynote on working with minor audiovisual archives in Latin America. This event is FREE and open to the public!
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The Exploding Digital Inevitable

Crossroads and The Exploding Digital Inevitable with special guest Ross Lipman

TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada

Archive/Counter-Archive and TIFF Higher Learning are delighted to welcome special guest Ross Lipman to deliver a keynote on Bruce Conner's CROSSROADS and Lipman's project THE EXPLODING DIGITAL INEVITABLE. This event is FREE and open to the public!
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How She Sees It Poster

How She Sees It: Women’s Films from the CFMDC

Room IMA 307, School of Image Arts
122 Bond Street, Ryerson University
Toronto ON M5B 1X8
Canada

Students in Izabella's Pruska-Oldenhof's "Issues in Film Curation and Exhibition" course in Ryerson's Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management program worked with CFMDC on a very special film program, featuring works by Canadian women. This program is one of several initiatives directed by Ryerson’s faculty, who consist of several A/CA Co-Applicants and Collaborators.
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Lisa Sloniowski

Working Papers Series: Lisa Sloniowski | Theorizing the Library

Free Times Cafe
320 College St
Toronto ON M5T 1S3
Canada

Join us for the second iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different Universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. Our second speaker is York librarian and PhD Candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought program, Lisa Sloniowski. Her talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by the event’s curators, Michael Marlatt and Axelle Demus.
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Public

Public no. 57 “Archive/Counter- Archives”: Reading Group

Room 407, Faubourg Building, Concordua University
1250 Guy Street
Montreal QC H3H 2T4
Canada

Archive/Counter-Archive's Epistemologies of the Archive Working Group will be hosting a single-session reading group at Concordia University on Public’s summer 2018 issue entitled “Archive/Counter-Archives.” The reading group is open to all who are interested!
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Photo courtesy of Ryan Conrad

AIDS Activist Cinema & The Queer Canadian Underground

Nat Taylor Cinema (102 Ross Building), York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
Canada

Archive/Counter-Archive and the Department of Cinema & Media Arts at York University are delighted to welcome A/CA researchers Ryan Conrad and Thomas Waugh to present on their Case Studies.
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Patrick Keilty

"Uncatalogued: A Porn Archive's Risky Arrangements": Public Lecture

John Molson Building (MB), room 9A
1450 Guy Street
Montreal QC H3H 1J5
Canada

Archive/Counter-Archive's Epistemologies of the Archive Working Group will be hosting a free public lecture at Concordia University by Dr. Patrick Keilty. Patrick Keilty is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, with affiliate faculty positions in the Technoscience Research Unit, Cinema Studies Institute, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, and the Women and Gender Studies Institute.
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Screenshot from Chooka 2018

Archive/Counter-Archive at the Canadian Screens conference

1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, Thistle 248
St. Catherines ON L2S 3A1
Canada

A/CA Principal Investigator Janine Marchessault will be delivering the Keynote Presentation and A/CA Student Researcher Claudia Sicondolfo will be presenting a paper at the upcoming Two Days of Canada Conference 2019: Canadian Screens. The conference explores the socio-political, cultural, and technological constructs surrounding Canadian screen production and consumption.
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