News and Events

Posts and happenings from around the A/CA network.

Jan 11, 2025 - 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 by Artist-in-residence Redsun, at the Winnipeg Film Group

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Special presentation: The Cinémathèque québécoise's Savoirs communs du cinéma initiative

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Working Paper Series: Postdoc Roundtable | Zoom, January 23, 2025, 4:30 PM EST

Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series (WPS), which brings together PhD students and graduate researchers from different universities to hear about exciting work in the area of archival studies

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Janine Marchessault Featured on CBC Ideas

Janine Marchessault, CBC Ideas, Nov 2024 (Killam Prize)

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Rain Date: the8fest and CineMobilia are coming to Scarborough! July 22, 4-10 pm, Prairie Drive Park

Saturday, July 22nd, 2023 at 4:00 PM

Prairie Drive Park
119 Pharmacy Ave
Scarborough ON M1L 1L5
Canada

Rescheduled due to weather: the8fest and CineMobilia are in Scarborough next Saturday, July 22nd! Don't forget to bring your lawn chairs, blankets, and snacks for an interactive evening of small-gauge film education and celebration.

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Recording of A/CA Panel at the Eye International Conference 2023

We are pleased to be able to share a recording of the A/CA panel at this year's Eye International Conference. Watch Antoine Damiens, Janine Marchessault, Nadine Valcin, and Michael Zryd speak about different aspects of the project.

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A/CA Members at the IAMHIST 2023 Future [of] Archives Conference

Congratulations to many A/CA members who are presenting their research at this year's IAMHIST 2023 Conference on Future [of] Archives on June 20-22 in Montreal!

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Archival Atelier | "Net Art Restoration With Cheryl L'hirondelle's vancouversonglines.ca/nikamon ohci askiy," June 16th, 11 AM EST

In this recorded roundtable, we heard from several scholars, artists, and archivists involved with the ongoing restoration of Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s net art project vancouversonglines.ca/nikamon ohci askiy (2008).

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CineMobilia Artist in Residence Announcement: Nada El-Omari

Our partner organization, CineMobilia, has just announced its first artist-in-residence! Throughout the rest of the month, writer and filmmaker Nada El-Omari will be working in CineMobilia's digitization lab at York University.

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A/CA Members at the Arsenal Berlin's Archival Assembly #2

Congratulations to the A/CA members who recently presented their research at the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Arts' Archival Assembly #2 from June 8-15th in Berlin!

The ArQuives Artist in Residence Announcement: Jordan King

The ArQuives, in partnership with Archive/CounterArchive, is thrilled to announce that Jordan King will be Artist in Residence in celebration of The ArQuives’ 50th Anniversary.

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Worth More Standing Documentation

This article contains a curated selection of photo documentation from Lindsay McIntyre and Peter Bussigel's Worth More Standing expanded cinema performance and screening event.

YFile interview with Janine Marchessault about A/CA's Congress 2023 events

York University's YFile news blog recently published an article interviewing A/CA Principal Investigator Janine Marchessault about some of the events that A/CA organized as part of this year's Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at York University.

"Margaret Perry and film camera." Nova Scotia Information Service Nova Scotia Archives no. NSIS 1200

Margaret Perry: A Life in Film Exhibit at the Archives of Ontario

This travelling exhibition, originally shown at the Nova Scotia Archives in conjunction with the "Margaret Perry and the Nova Scotia Film Bureau Films" A/CA Case Study, arrives at the Archives of Ontario this summer.

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Worth More Standing Screening & Performance

Sunday, May 28th, 2023 at 7:30 PM

Artscape Sandbox
301 Adelaide St W
Toronto ON M5V 2E8
Canada

Organized by Archive/Counter-Archive, Worth More Standing is a hybrid screening and live expanded cinema performance event featuring the work of Vancouver-based artists Lindsay McIntyre and Peter Bussigel. The screening and performance will be followed by a short Q&A and a reception.

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A/CA Members at the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC) 2023 Conference

Congratulations to many A/CA members who are presenting their research at this year's Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC) Annual Conference on May 27-29, 2023, at York University in Toronto, Canada, held in conjunction with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences!

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