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2025

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
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