News and Events Archive

2025

The Museum of Anthropology at UBC Artist-in-Residence Announcement: Bracken Hanuse Corlett

A/CA Members at the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC) 2025 Conference

Talking Archives 2, Episode 4: Marcel Beltrán

New Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) Educational Guide on VUCAVU.com

PARADE: QUEER ACTS OF LOVE & RESISTANCE World Premiere Opens 2025 Toronto Hot Docs Festival on April 24th

Congratulations to A/CA member Laura Horak – 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellow

Talking Archives 2, Episode 3: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

March 15, 2025: Airplane Confessional, a program curated by artist-in-residence Aaditya Aggarwal at CFMDC

Lesley Loksi Chan’s LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED wins Teddy and Golden Bear at Berlinale! Congratulations!

New VIVO Media Arts Centre Educational Guides on VUCAVU.com

February 25 – OPEN FORUM: ANTI-RACISM ON SCREEN presents WILFRED BUCK

Talking Archives 2, Episode 2: Gillian Moody

Jan 11, 2025 - 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 by Artist-in-residence Redsun, at the Winnipeg Film Group

Special presentation: The Cinémathèque québécoise's Savoirs communs du cinéma initiative

Working Papers Series: Postdoc Roundtable | Zoom, January 23, 2025, 4:30 PM EST

2024

Janine Marchessault Featured on CBC Ideas

Dec 12-19: Portraits of the Past, Contemporary Perspectives, online at White Frame

A/CA Members at the 2024 Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference, December 4–6

November 29–30: Viral Interventions Conference and Screening

Working Papers Series: Cate Alexander | Zoom, Nov 28

November 27: Portraits du passé, Perspectives contemporaines at GIV

20 novembre 2024 - Penser la réactivation des archives audiovisuelles féministes : bilan de l’initiative Savoirs Communs du Cinéma de la Cinémathèque québécoise

A/CA Welcomes New Knowledge Mobilization Officer

November 6: AFTERSHOCK au Groupe Intervention Vidéo

October 29 - OPEN FORUM: ANTI-RACISM ON SCREEN presents MARJORIE BEAUCAGE & LISA MYERS

A Feminist Lens: The 1973 Women & Film International Festival Exhibition at TIFF

Talking Archives 2, Episode 1: Chantal Partamian

Creative Atelier with Film Artist Karel Doing | Oct 9, York University

AV/revoir les archives! Méthodes, théories et activations des archives queer et féministes | 28 Août, Cinémathèque québécoise

YFile interview with Janine Marchessault about the GAVA 2024 Conference

Talking Archives - Episode 9: Julia Minne

New CFMDC Educational Guides on VUCAVU.com

Archives in Action Public Plenary | 6pm, July 10, Innis Town Hall, Toronto

The 2nd Annual Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference

TWLA Book Launch and Screening at the DARC Microcinema

Crossing/Crosser: Language, Borders and Generations Screening & Talk

New issue of Feminist Media Histories featuring the work of several A/CA members

Chasing Moons: New Digitizations from the WFG Vault, available on VUCAVU until April 8th

Janine Marchessault Awarded Killam Prize

Toronto Living With AIDS: Finding a Future in the Past

A/CA Members at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 2024 Conference

Working Papers Series: Béatrice Cloutier-Trépanier | Zoom, Feb 20

2023

Archival Atelier | "Digitising and Remediating Personal Archives" Workshop with Nada El-Omari and Jean-Pierre Marchant

FOGGY: Palestine Solidarity, Cinema & The Archive Screening

Recording of Lola Rémy's "Women’s Affective Labour in Experimental Film Archives" Working Papers Presentation

Stories from the Heart of Turtle Island: A screening curated by ACA artist-in-residence Redsun//Sahgothé

IAMHIST 2023 Plenary Roundtable Recordings Now Available!

Working Papers Series: Lola Rémy | Zoom, Dec 5

VIVO Media Arts Artist in Residence Announcement: Roxanne Charles and Easton Arnouse

Recording of Debbie Ebanks Schlums' "Performance Documentation and the Embodied Jamaican Diasporic Archive" Working Papers Presentation

Archival Atelier | "Memory Labs as Participatory Archival Spaces: A Feminist Perspective" with Allison Elliot

ONSTAGE/OFFSTAGE Online Curatorial Talk, Oct 12

Working Papers Series: Debbie Ebanks Schlums | Zoom, Nov 7

Save-the-Date and CFP for the 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference

Talking Archives Episode 8 - Archivist Melissa J. Nelson

Announcing the "Archival Futures: Ethics and Carework in the Archive" Reading Group

The Archive/Counter-Archive 2023 Fall Graduate Student Mixer

ONSTAGE/OFFSTAGE Exhibtion, the ArQuives, September 21

A/CA Call for Papers for SCMS 2024

the8fest: Experimental Filmmaking with Found Footage Workshop with Franci Duran and Phil Hoffman

Rain Date: the8fest and CineMobilia are coming to Scarborough! July 22, 4-10 pm, Prairie Drive Park

Recording of A/CA Panel at the Eye International Conference 2023

A/CA Members at the IAMHIST 2023 Future [of] Archives Conference

Archival Atelier | "Net Art Restoration With Cheryl L'hirondelle's vancouversonglines.ca/nikamon ohci askiy," June 16th, 11 AM EST

CineMobilia Artist in Residence Announcement: Nada El-Omari

A/CA Members at the Arsenal Berlin's Archival Assembly #2

The ArQuives Artist in Residence Announcement: Jordan King

Worth More Standing Documentation

YFile interview with Janine Marchessault about A/CA's Congress 2023 events

Margaret Perry: A Life in Film Exhibit at the Archives of Ontario

Worth More Standing Screening & Performance

A/CA Members at the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC) 2023 Conference

Archival Atelier | Hélène Brousseau and Sarah Lake, "Archiving Websites with Webrecorder" 4:30 pm, May 18, Zoom

A/CA Members at the Eye International Conference 2023

Archival Atelier | Pippin Barr, "Documenting Design with the Method for Design Materialization" 4:30 pm, May 4, Zoom

Talking Archives - Episode 7: Archivist and ArQuives Director Raegan Swanson

Video Recordings of In Visible Colours: Remediated 2022

TFVA 2023 Founders Achievement Award Winners - Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak

Archive Fever Friday: TIFF Film Reference Library

TFMS virtual panel - Crossing The Finish Line | April 21st, 4pm EST, Zoom

Project Highlight: Satellite Dreaming Revisited

YFile article on Chloë Brushwood Rose's new Vice-Provost position

The Annotated Archive of Archival Resources

Publication | The A/CA Nuit Blanche 2022 Online Catalogue

Entangled Media Archeaologies TFMS online panel | Mar 24,4-5:30 pm EST

New Member Spotlight: Almudena Escobar López

Book Launch | Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data | Mar 28th

Working Papers Series: Postdoc Roundtable | Zoom, March 30, 2023

New Momus review of Andrea Fatona's A Space exhibition

A/CA Panel at the International Film Festival of Ottawa | March 9th, Ottawa Art Gallery

Video Recording | Working Paper Series | Noor Bhangu: The Homoerotics of Haram Life

New book chapter from A/CA member Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte

Media Cosmologies: an intergenerational conversation on art, technology, and transmission with Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Callum Beckford

New edited collection from A/CA member Warren Crichlow

Registration now open for Analogue Resilience: A Film Labs Gathering | May 25-30, 2023

New A/CA Artists in Residence at CFMDC and WFG

Screening | Sisters in the Struggle (16mm) | Feb 28th, 5:30pm, Concordia University

Book Launch | Imagining Futures of Experimental Media | Mar 8th, 6pm EST, Zoom

A/CA Members at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 2023 Conference

Movie Night at the Visual Collections Repository | Feb 23rd, 5-7pm, Concordia University

New A/CA Book Series Announced with Concordia University Press

Working Papers Series: Noor Bhangu | Zoom, Feb 28, 2023

Publication | Indigenous Media Arts in Canada Making, Caring, Sharing

Exhibition | more-than-human, Onsite Gallery, OCAD, Feb 1 - May 13

Publication | Canadian Cinema in the New Millenium

Archive/Counter-Archive Concordia Student Research Showcase and Social

Workshop | Accessibility and the Archivist with A/CA Student Researcher Michael Marlatt

Publication | Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

2022

Publication | A Leap in the Dark 30th Anniversary Digitized Reissue

Video Recording | Working Paper Series | Johanna Laub: Archives In/As Ruins

A/CA Call for Papers for FMSAC 2023

Screening | Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging | Dec 1st, Vtape

Moving On | Reel Asian Film Festival Short Film Screening | Nov 10, 6:30 PM, TIFF

Sexile and the Task of Archiving Cuban Queer Diasporas | Screening & Talk | Nov 14th, Concordia University

Video Recording: "Counter-Archives as Living Archives" FSAC 2022 Panel

Grateful Reflections on the Indigenous Archives Gathering

Working Papers Series: Johanna Laub | Zoom, Nov 29, 2022

Memory in Motion Screening | 7-9 PM, Oct 27, TMU

Video Recording | Working Paper Series | Theo Xenophontos: Film as Mediator: Cultivating a Cypriot Canadian Community Audiovisual Media Archive

The Indigenous Archives Gathering | Oct 17-18, TIFF Bell Lightbox

CineMobilia Launch and Screening Programme | Oct 1-2, 2022

Working Papers Series: Theo Xenophontos | Zoom, Oct 25, 2022

Biophilia: Artist and Archive | Nuit Blanche, Oct 1-2, 2022

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Activating an Archive: Margaret Perry and the Nova Scotia Film Bureau

Book Launch | Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures

Save the Dates: The Indigenous Archives Gathering | TIFF Lightbox | Oct 17–18

Symposium: In Visible Colours Remediated 2022

Exhibition: Pamila Matharu: Where Were You in ‘92?

Aug 24: Floating Relics: A Cinematic Walkshop in Search of Niagara

New Article from the A/CA Team: "Archives-in-the-Making, Vulnerable Communities and Migration"

Aug 5–11: The Archive as Commemoration, an online screening program curated by Mahlet Cuff for the8fest

New Mail Art Project: The images, such as they are, do have an effect on us*

A/CA Call for Papers for SCMS 2023

A/CA Welcomes New Knowledge Mobilization Officer

New DVD: Cinema's First Nasty Women

Book Launch: Devotion

Indexing Resistance: The Blood & Guts of Queer Protest in Canada

A/CA Members at the 2022 Orphan Film Symposium

The formless body: an exhibition at the Olga Korper Gallery

Orphan Film Symposium | Registration and Program

Indexing Resistance: The Blood and Guts of Queer Protest Symposium

SCMS Award Winners 2022

Archive/Counter-Archive Spring Updates

June 4-July 2, 2022: The Formless Body: an exhibit curated by Jarrett Earnest at the Olga Korper Gallery

May 20-22: Our Home and Haunted Land

A/CA Members at the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) 2022 Conference

York University's Queer Summer Institute; Pink Lines: Public Events Program

Transiting the Queer Uncommons: Queer Summer Institute in Research Creation (TQU)

Archival Atelier: Kim Tomczak (Vtape), "Tackling VHS Tapes: An Overview of Digitization Workflow"

MITACs Postdoctoral Fellowship in Hybrid Media Publication Platforms

A/CA Welcomes New Project Manager

Screening with Pleasure Dome: planetary ruins & other possibilities

Archival Atelier: Kim Tomczak, "Tackling VHS Tapes: An Overview of Digitization Workflow"

Archival Atelier: Kelly Egan (Trent University) and Mark Toscano (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive), "Material in the Margins: Experimental Film, the Archive and Ephemerality"

Archival Atelier: Kelly Egan and Mark Toscano, "Material in the Margins: Experimental Film, the Archive and Ephemerality"

Working Papers Series: Michael Marlatt | "Disability, Chronic Illness, Neurodiversity and the Moving Image Preservation Program"

Special issue of Frames Cinema Journal on "Sensing the Archive – Exploring the digital (im)materiality of the moving image archive"

Working Papers Series:Marcus Jack | Peripherality and its Consequences: The Counternarratives of Artists' Filmmaking in Scotland (and elsewhere)

Archival Atelier: Dave Pascoe (Media Commons, University of Toronto), ”Opening the Box: Assessing a Random Sample of AV Materials"

Artist Residency: CFMDC + Archive/Counter-Archive

Working Papers Series: Michael Marlatt | "Disability, Chronic Illness, Neurodiversity and the Moving Image Preservation Program"

New book: HOLDING GROUND:NUIT BLANCHE AND OTHER RUPTURES

“Writing Quebec’s feminist and LGBT film history”

Working Papers Series:Marcus Jack | Peripherality and its Consequences: The Counternarratives of Artists' Filmmaking in Scotland (and elsewhere)

Working Papers Series: Linda Grussani | Recognition and Access: Indigenous Curatorial Practice

Archival Atelier Workshop Series

Atelier méthodologique du RéQEF: Travailler les archives féministes et LGBTQ

Working Papers Series: Linda Grussani | Recognition and Access: Indigenous Curatorial Practice

Talking Archives - Episode 6: Artist-in-residence Pamila Matharu

Moments of Perception with Barbara Sternberg and Jim Shedden

Fire in the Archives: Tactical Pathways for Film Preservation in Brazil

2021

Cut Draw Fuck Kiss: Queer Animated Short Films from the CFMDC Collection

New book: Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada

Enduring Care: An event organized by Vtape, Viral Interventions, AIDS Actions Now!, A/CA, and Visual Aids

Video Recording | Working Papers Series: Kate J. Russell | “John Waters’s Effluvic Cinema: Cult, Community, Laughter”

Archive/Counter-Archive's 2021 Symposium - Keynote, Paula Amad

Working Papers Series: Kate J. Russell | “John Waters’s Effluvic Cinema: Cult, Community, Laughter”

Disrupting the Archives: A/CA panel at the Regent Park Film Festival

Job posting: Financial Administrative Assistant

Video Recording | Working Papers Series: Axelle Demus | "Out of the Closets, and Into Your Homes!: Televising, Informing, and Connecting Queer Communities on Ontario’s Cable Access Channels (1972-2000)"

Archive/Counter-Archive Fall Updates

Blind Rabbit | Free Online Screening in Partnership with Reel Asian

Moving Homeward | Online Screening in Partnership with Pleasure Dome

Working Papers Series: Axelle Demus | "Out of the Closets, and Into Your Homes!: Televising, Informing, and Connecting Queer Communities on Ontario’s Cable Access Channels (1972-2000)"

Call for Applications: MITACS Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Regent Park Film Festival

Call for Chapters. Counter Archives: Communities

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

A/CA Welcomes New Project Manager

Open Archive Initiative Symposium Sept 21-22

Conversation 1: Intergenerational Dialogue of Artist Mothers

Urban Shaman Exhibition Mide-wigwas: Transmediating by Angelina McLeod

Archive/Counter-Archive and Video Pool Media Arts Centre Present EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED; NOTHING IS POSSIBLE: Desire and Labour Under Late Capitalism

A/CA Symposium 2020 | Recording, Keynote: Deanna Bowen, Berlin Berlin

A/CA Welcomes New Knowledge Mobilization Officer

Archive/Counter-Archive and The Toronto Palestine Film Festival Present: Solidarity Screening and Discussion: Naila and the Uprising by Julia Bacha

A/CA Summer Institute 2021 | Recordings

Urban Shaman Exhibition Mide-wigwas: Transmediating by Angelina McLeod

A/CA Summer Institute 2021 | Public Talks | AIDS Activist Media Research within Canada

Breakthroughs Film Festival and Archive/Counter-Archive Present: Screening | I Do But I Don't (Dir. Marlee Druker) | June 16-20, 2021

Archive/Counter-Archive Researchers Published in Spring 2021 Issue of Jump Cut

Save the Dates: Orphans Conference 2022 | Concordia University

A/CA Summer Institute 2021 | Public Talks | The Practice of Indigenous Metadata and Knowledge Organization

Save the Dates: Archive/Counter-Archive Summer Institute 2021 | Public Talks

Recording: Public Talk | Crystal Mowry | Commit to Memory

The Toronto Queer Film Festival, The ArQuives, and Archive/Counter-Archive Present: Queering the Web

Viral Interventions: Open Call for Video Proposals

Video Recording: Artist Talk | Shawn Johnston

Video Recording | Working Papers Series: Sylvia Nowak | This Is Toronto: Finding Antifascism in the Neoliberal Archives, 1979-1998

Archive/Counter-Archive Spring Updates

Public Talk | Crystal Mowry | Commit to Memory

TQFF & Archive/Counter-Archive Screening: Long Time Comin' directed by Dionne Brand

Archive/Counter-Archive Presents: Artist Talk | Shawn Johnston

2020-2021 Artist in Residence hosted by Archives of Ontario & Archive/Counter-Archive

A/CA Summer School 2021

On This Land: Films from CFMDC - Free Online Film Exhibition

Working Papers Series: Sylvia Nowak | This Is Toronto: Finding Antifascism in the Neoliberal Archives, 1979-1998

Call for Applications: MITACS Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Hybrid Media Publication Platforms

Video Recording | Working Papers Series | Dr. Ana Rita Morais: Remediating the [AR]chival Impulse

A/CA Collaborator Receives Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award

Talking Archives - Episode 5: Students Activating the Archive

Archive/Counter-Archive Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Schem Rogerson Bader

Working Papers Series: Ana Rita Morais | Remediating the [AR]chival Impulse

Talking Archives - Episode 4: Video Artist and Filmmaker John Greyson

2020

A Filmmaker in Focus: Alison Duke

Talking Archives - Episode 3: Postdoctoral Researcher Ryan Conrad

Archive/Counter-Archive 2020 Online Symposium | December 10-11, 2020 | Black Lives and Archival Histories in Canada

Promise Me: Panel discussion with Alison Duke and cast and crew moderated by Alanna Thain and Émilie Poirier

Interview: A/CA Researcher Patrick Keilty Acquires Chuck Kleinhans and Tom Waugh's Collections

Welcome Back: Fall Updates from Janine Marchessault

Talking Archives - Episode 2: Filmmaker Philip Hoffman

Working Papers Series: Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte: Digital Distribution as Counter-Archival Practice?

Behind the Lens - WHITEWASH: Nadine Valcin in conversation with Debbie Ebanks Schlums

Talking Archives - Episode 1: Artist Nadine Valcin

A/CA Statement of Solidarity and Response to the Call to Action

Call for Applications: MITACs Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Canadian Queer Audiovisual Collections

2020-2021 Working Papers Series

Archive/Counter-Archive Updates & Year 2 in Review

EVENT CANCELLED - Hinterland Remixed: Toronto Book Launch + Screening

EVENT CANCELLED - Unpacking Conversation: Intergenerational Archival Engagement

Special Screening: ZERO PATIENCE (1993)

Exhibition Tour of Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations

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

Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations Exhibition Launch

2019

Highlights: Archive/Counter-Archive 2019 Symposium

Ad Hoc #26 Women Filmmakers, Embodiment, and Abstraction

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

Crossroads and The Exploding Digital Inevitable with special guest Ross Lipman

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

Working Papers Series: Lisa Sloniowski | Theorizing the Library

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

AIDS Activist Cinema & The Queer Canadian Underground

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

Archive/Counter-Archive at the Canadian Screens conference

Working Papers Series: Jonathan Petrychyn | An Archive of Fevers

Gathering Across Moana: Reception

Archive/Counter-Archive and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) announce inaugural Artist Residencies

A/CA Distinguished Speaker Series: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

Margaret Perry Case Study: Y1 Update

Vulnerable Media Lab: Y1 Update

Winnipeg Film Group Case Study: Y1 Update

Urban Shaman Case Study: Y1 Update

Don’t Believe the ’69 Hype! [screening + discussion]

69 Positions: Porter témoignage | Our Vanishing

The Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

Book Launch & Reception - Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age

Exhibition: After hours Chez Madame Arthur

Conference: Archives of LGBTQ+ minorities in Europe & Canada

Summer Institute recap: Spotlight on Contemporary Indigenous Filmmaking

Trans Archival Futures

Summer Institute recap: Matthias Müller

Saugeen Takes On Film Open House

69 Positions: Critically Revisiting the Partial Decriminalization of Sodomy & Abortion Through the Canadian & Québec Archive

Summer Institute: Archive/Counter-Archives

Home Made Visible Screening + Panel Discussion at York University

2018

Holding Still and Moving

Archive/Counter-Archive holds Inaugural Kick-Off Meeting