Skip to main content
Home
News and Events
Case Studies
Working Groups
GAVA 2024 Conference
Conference Schedule
Presenter Biographies
Registration, Hotels, and Directions
GAVA Summer Institute
Our Research Network
Publications and Resources
About
Main navigation
Home
News and Events
Case Studies
Working Groups
GAVA 2024 Conference
Conference Schedule
Presenter Biographies
Registration, Hotels, and Directions
GAVA Summer Institute
Our Research Network
Researchers and Partners
Community Partners
Student Researchers
Artists in Residence
Postdoctoral Researchers
Publications and Resources
Books and Special Issues
Video Recordings
Educational Guides
Annotated Bibliography
About
Welcome to Archive/Counterarchive
Français
News and Events Archive
2024
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 Paper 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, Season 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
pin
facebook
instagram
twitter