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A black and white archival photograph of a woman operating a film camera on a tripod standing in front of a boat.

Activating an Archive: Margaret Perry and the Nova Scotia Film Bureau

Nova Scotia Archives
6016 University Avenue
Halifax NS B3H 1W4
Canada

Join us for three nights of events to mark the digital release of the career work of Margaret Perry, the filmmaker and director who made over 50 films for the Nova Scotia Film Bureau (1945-1969). These promotional films depict the province as a site of tourism, industry, labour, and heritage and are complex artifacts that articulate and reflect understandings of government policy, cultural discourse, as well as Perry’s own perspectives and artistic voice.
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A promotional image with the text "Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures" displayed on the top portion of a book cover that also features a photograph of a costumed person in front of cheering crowd at night.

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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A promotional image with the text "The Archive as Commemoration" in large capital letters on the right hand side and a film still of two people embracing in front of a window sill.

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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