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Recording of Lola Rémy's "Women’s Affective Labour in Experimental Film Archives" Working Papers Presentation
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Lola Rémy's Working Papers Series talk, "Women’s Affective Labour in Experimental Film Archives: At the Margins of the North American Avant-Garde," which took place on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023.

Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor
401 Richmond St. West
Toronto ON
FOGGY: Palestine Solidarity, Cinema & The Archive Screening
Foggy: Palestine Solidarity, Cinema & the Archive is a screening program of eight new works by Palestinian artists and their allies that is being coordinated as part of the Queer Cinema for Palestine global festival.
Archival Atelier | "Digitising and Remediating Personal Archives" Workshop with Nada El-Omari and Jean-Pierre Marchant
Nada El-Omari, current artist in residence at CineMobilia, and Jean-Pierre Marchant, Director of Operations at CineMobilia, have been talking and making films with family archives for several years. In this workshop Nada and Jean-Pierre will discuss their shared interest in silences, stories, migration, and grief in family photos and home movies.
304-100 Arthur Street
Winnipeg MB
Stories from the Heart of Turtle Island: A screening curated by ACA artist-in-residence Redsun//Sahgothé
Join us on Friday, November 17th, at the Black Lodge for an evening screening of Indigenous Short Films! The event runs from 7-9 pm and is free to all. Pulled from the Winnipeg Film Group’s archival collection by Denesuline/Nehitho artist in residence, Redsun//Sahgothé — with Support from Archive/Counter-Archive.Recording of Lola Rémy's "Women’s Affective Labour in Experimental Film Archives" Working Papers Presentation
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Lola Rémy's Working Papers Series talk, "Women’s Affective Labour in Experimental Film Archives: At the Margins of the North American Avant-Garde," which took place on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023. See below for Lola's abstract, bio, and the recorded video of her talk!
FOGGY: Palestine Solidarity, Cinema & The Archive Screening
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor
401 Richmond St. West
Toronto ON M5V3A8
Canada
Archival Atelier | "Digitising and Remediating Personal Archives" Workshop with Nada El-Omari and Jean-Pierre Marchant
Stories from the Heart of Turtle Island: A screening curated by ACA artist-in-residence Redsun//Sahgothé
304-100 Arthur Street
Winnipeg MB R3B 1H3
Canada
IAMHIST 2023 Plenary Roundtable Recordings Now Available!
We are very excited to announce that the plenary roundtable recordings for the 2023 IAMHIST conference are now available to freely stream on YouTube. These roundtables each feature several A/CA researchers speaking about their work with Canadian audiovisual archives.
Working Papers Series: Lola Rémy | Zoom, Dec 5
Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different universities to hear about exciting academic research in the area of archival studies. Our next speaker is Lola Rémy, who is a post-doctoral researcher at McGill University. Lola's talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.
VIVO Media Arts Artist in Residence Announcement: Roxanne Charles and Easton Arnouse
We are pleased to announce that, in collaboration with our partner organization, VIVO Media Arts, we are hosting Roxanne Charles and her son, Easton Arnouse, as two new A/CA Artists in Residence. Throughout the following months, Roxanne and Easton will be working with VIVO to produce a new counter-archival project. Stay tuned over the following months for more details!
Recording of Debbie Ebanks Schlums' "Performance Documentation and the Embodied Jamaican Diasporic Archive" Working Papers Presentation
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Debbie Ebanks Schlums' Working Papers Series talk, "Performance Documentation and the Embodied Jamaican Diasporic Archive," which took place on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023. See below for Debbie's abstract, bio, and the recorded video of her talk!
Archival Atelier | "Memory Labs as Participatory Archival Spaces: A Feminist Perspective" with Allison Elliot
Join us for another Archival Atelier online workshop on November 14th at 4:30 pm EST on Zoom. This time, we will be hearing from Allison Elliot from The Feminist Institute about their recent Memory Lab events and hear some tips and best practices for producing one of your own.
ONSTAGE/OFFSTAGE Online Curatorial Talk, Oct 12
Working Papers Series: Debbie Ebanks Schlums | Zoom, Nov 7
Join us for another online 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 next speaker is Debbie Ebanks Schlums, who is a PhD Candidate in the Cinema and Media Studies program at York University. Debbie's talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.
Save-the-Date and CFP for the 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference
Read through our CFP for the upcoming 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices, taking place on July 12-14, 2024 in Toronto.