News and Events Archive

2021

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