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Book Launch | Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures

Artscape Daniels Launchpad
East Tower, 130 Queens Quay E, 4th Floor
Toronto ON M5A 0P6
Canada

Commemorating the 15-year history of Nuit Blanche, Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures is an edited collection by artists, scholars, curators and contributors that considers Nuit Blanche in Canada and abroad. Through personal reflections, dialogues, and projects, the essays and images in this full-colour volume generate a multi-perspectival view of Nuit Blanche, which has spanned numerous urban centres and forged countless community relations, in a volume that brings together historical, contemporary and future-oriented understandings of this large-scale public art event. Hosted by Nuit Blanche and the City of Toronto with PUBLIC Books.
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A film still of a group of women sitting around small circular tables in front of a wall with four large framed pieces of art hung on it.

Symposium: In Visible Colours Remediated 2022

2625 Kaslo Street
Vancouver BC V5M 1Y8
Canada

Originally held in Vancouver from November 15th-19th, 1989, the ground-breaking event, In Visible Colours: An International Women of Colour and Third World Women Film/Video Festival and Symposium was co-founded by Zainub Verjee and Lorraine Chan in partnership with Women in Focus and National Film Board. With over 100 films and videos from 28 countries, In Visible Colours emerged amid socio-political upheaval of the late 1970s and 1980s that foregrounded race and gender and the politics of cultural difference. Thirty years later, we bring together some of the original participants of IVC, alongside students, researchers, curators and contemporary producers. The event — organized in collaboration with VIVO Media Arts Centre, the Archive/Counter Archive project, and the Vulnerable Media Lab (Queen's University) — is planned as an inter-generational, multi-sited gathering.
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A promotional image with the text "Floating Relics: A Cinematic Walkshop in Search of Niagara" displayed over a film still of a shirtless person in stripes shorts floating in churning water.

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

Niagara Artists Centre
354 St Paul Street
St Catharines ON L2R 3N2
Canada

As part of the Mighty Niagara Film Festival on August 24th, join us for a strata-walk around St. Catharines followed by a rooftop screening at the Niagara Artists Centre!

The participatory mapping exercise, led by researchers Taien Ng-Chan, Lee Rodney, and Donna Akrey, will take its prompts from the mediated history of the region. A walk-book will be provided for participants with creative questions, prompts, and drawing spaces, and the walkshop will loop back to the NAC to conclude with an experimental screening presentation. 

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A cover for an academic journal called L'Atalante that depicts a field at dusk with a pole on the right side of the picture with some cloth attached to that is blowing in the wind. The photo is in black and white and there is small very small text on the left hand side of the image which is not easily readable.

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

"Archives-in-the-Making, Vulnerable Communities and Migration" is a roundtable discussion between several archival organizations from around the world that members of the A/CA team (Janine Marchessault, Michael Zryd, and Antoine Damiens) participated in. The article is published in a recent special issue of the film studies journal L'Atalante that is focused on the topics of film archives and migration. 

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

The Archive as Commemoration is an online screening program curated by A/CA member Mahlet Cuff for the8fest (Aug 5–11, 2022). This program is focused on artists who use 8mm film to explore diasporic histories, memory, and familial stories. Presenting films by Hagere Selam Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, Sonya Mwambu, Nesanet Teshager Abegaze, and Akosua Adoma Owusu.
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A promotional image with a photograph of downtown Denver during the evening with a colourful logo that says "SCMS" in the middle of the image with the text "2023 annual conference, april 12-15, denver, colorado" underneath it.

A/CA Call for Papers for SCMS 2023

Are you planning on presenting research related to A/CA at the 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (April 12-15th, 2023, Denver, Colorado)? Please let us know by August 8th! We would love to coordinate paper proposals and constitute A/CA-related panel(s) (see CFP below).

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Cinema's first nasty women, dvd cover

New DVD: Cinema's First Nasty Women

Congratulations to A/CA member Laura Horak for Cinema's First Nasty Women, coming to DVD and Blu-ray August 30th from Kino Lorber!!!

 

https://www.kinolorber.com/.../cinemas-first-nasty-women...

 

This four-disc set showcase more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy, genteel farce, the trick film, cowboy melodrama, and adventure thriller. Cinema’s First Nasty Women includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from thirteen international film archives and libraries, with all-new musical scores, video introductions, commentary tracks, and a lavishly illustrated booklet (Blu-ray only).

 

Curated by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, and produced for video by Bret Wood, Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a partnership of Kino Lorber, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Women Film Pioneers Project, Eye Filmmuseum, Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México - FIC Silente MX, and Carleton University.

 

Special features:

*“What Is a Nasty Woman?” - Video introduction to the collection, featuring series curators Laura Horak, Maggie Hennefeld, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, and music supervisor Dana Reason 

*Eleven short documentaries focused on specific films and performers, including interviews with Liza Black, TJ Cuthand, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Dana Reason, Arigon Starr, Susan Stryker, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins 

*120-page booklet with essays, interviews, photos, and detailed film notes (print copies only available in the Blu-ray Deluxe First Edition; DVD and subsequent Blu-ray editions will feature a QR code for the full booklet contents online) 

*Audio commentaries for select films by: Jennifer Bean (University of Washington), Liza Black, Enrique Moreno Ceballos (Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México), Liz Clarke (Brock University), Bryony Dixon (British Film Institute), Jane Gaines (Columbia University), Rosa María Licea Garibay (Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México), Joanna Hearne (University of Oklahoma), Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota), Laura Horak (Carleton University), Pamela Hutchinson (Silent London), Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (Eye Filmmuseum), Mariann Lewinsky (Cineteca di Bologna), Katharina Loew (University of Massachusetts Boston), Cecilia Ramírez Morales (Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México), Ana Belén Recoder (Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México), Lluvia Soto Rodríguez (Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México), Aurore Spiers, Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz), Alejandra Calleja Toxqui (Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México), Kristen Anderson Wagner (University of Southern California), Laetitia Vigneron (Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México), and Yiman Wang (University of California, Santa Cruz)

 

Booklet contributors: Daniel Aufmann, Jennifer Bean, Liza Black, Liz Clarke, Joanna Hearne, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Pamela Hutchinson, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Katharina Loew, Dana Reason, Charlene Regester, Alana Skwarok, Aurore Spiers, Shelley Stamp

Composers and Performers: Alicia Svigals, Amy Denio, Annelise Zamula, Ayi Solomon, Bill Noertker, Camila Cortina Bello, Carolina Hengstenberg, Carolyn Swartz, Catherine Lee, Christina Rusnak, Coco Bender, Dana Reason, Daniel Muschinsky, Dave Mihaly, David Borgo, Dianthe (Dee) Spencer, Don Ross, Dreamland Faces (Karen Majewicz, Andy McCormick, Julie Johnson, Gail Olszewski, Ryan Billig, Elaine Evans, Rachel Rogness, Philip Potyondy, Chris Hepola, and Christa Schneider), Edmar Colon, Eliot Britton, Elizabeth (Liz) Magnes, Elizabeth-Jane Baldry, Ellen Weller, Esin Aydingoz, Eunice Martins, Fabio Rojas, Frank Bockius, Gay Pearson, Gerson Lazo-Quiroga, Gonca Feride Varol, Guenter Buchwald, Harold Charon, Indiana University Orchestra (Daniel Whitworth, Tyler Readinger, Miriam Tung, Calvin Sall, Allison Dettloff, Clara Manzano, Yoav Hayut, Achille Vocat, John Heo, Em Singleton, Ilina Ilieva, Thomas Shaw, Eion Lyons, Teresa Labuda, and Gus Brown), Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez, Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach, Jana King, Jane Gardner, John Lockwood, Jose Ignacio Santo Aquino,José María Serralde Ruiz, Karl Soukoup, Kevin Harris, Kinnie Starr, Kristor Brødsgaard, Leslie Dukes, Libby Meyer, Lillian Henley, Lorena Ruiz Trejo, María Fernanda García Solar, Mark Weaver, Martha Mooke, Meg Morley, Michael Dessen, Nadia Citlali Cano Castañeda, Naomi Greena Nakanishi, Nate Hubbard, Niclas Compagno, Peter Valsamis, Phil McGowan, Renée C. Baker, Renée T. Coulombe, Roella Oloro, Santiago Bertel, Sara Ontaneda, Sean Sonderegger, Steven Montecucco, Terri Lyne Carrington, Tracy McMullen, Veronica Leahy, Violin/Noir (Rebecca Sabine and Aaron Ramsey), Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano

 

Participating Archives: EYE Filmmuseum, Library of Congress, Jérome Seydoux Pathé Foundation, GP Archives, British Film Institute, Blackhawk Films, George Eastman Museum, Library and Archives Canada, National Library of Norway, Swedish Film Institute, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Film Archive, Princeton University Library

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Book Launch: Devotion

Join us in launching Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive, edited by Jarrett Earnest, from 5-7pm at Olga Korper Gallery (17 Morrow Avenue, Toronto) on Wednesday June 22, 2022!

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