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Screening | Sisters in the Struggle (16mm) | Feb 28th, 5:30pm, Concordia University

1515 Ste. Catherine St. West
Visual Collections Repository (VCR), Room EV. 3.703
Montreal QC H3G 2W1
Canada

For all analog film lovers, the Archive/Counter-Archive student researchers will present a 16mm film print of 𝙎𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚 this Tuesday, February 28th. Come join us for this very special screening! This event is organized by Archive/Counter-Archive and supported by the VCR film collection.
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Book Launch | Imagining Futures of Experimental Media | Mar 8th, 6pm EST, Zoom

On Wednesday, March 8th, at 6 pm EST, Pleasure Dome will be holding a virtual book launch for its first e-book publication, Imagining Futures of Experimental Media. This e-book is co-edited by Aaditya Aggarwal, Elida Schogt, and Fan Wu and contains contributions from several A/CA members.

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A promotional image featuring two film stills of men's faces with the text "I Am Sombody" written on the top and "Attica Interviews" written on the bottom. These film stills have been placed over top of a white and yellow gridded background and there are various logos related to VCR and Archive/Counter-Archive arranged at the bottom.

Movie Night at the Visual Collections Repository | Feb 23rd, 5-7pm, Concordia University

1515 Ste. Catherine St. West
Visual Collections Repository (VCR), Room EV. 3.703
Montreal QC H3G 2W1
Canada

The Visual Collections Repository (VCR) at Concordia University is organizing a screening event on February 23rd from 5-7 pm EST. The two films being shown are I am Somebody by Madeline Anderson and an excerpt from Public Channel's Attica Interviews. This screening is organized by Archive/Counter-Archive and supported by the VCR film collection.
 

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Working Papers Series: Noor Bhangu | Zoom, Feb 28, 2023

Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. Our next speaker is Noor Bhangu, who is a PhD Candidate in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University. Noor’s talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.

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Exhibition | more-than-human, Onsite Gallery, OCAD, Feb 1 - May 13

199 Richmond Street West 
Toronto ON M5V 0H4
Canada

This interdisciplinary exhibition of media artworks features work from several A/CA members, including Suzanne Morrissette, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, and Mary Bunch. In addition to the exhibition itself, there are also a number of events scheduled over the course of its duration.
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Publication | Canadian Cinema in the New Millenium

This volume, co-edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman and published by McGill-Queen's University Press, features several essays written by A/CA members about Canadian films, filmmakers, and film contexts since the year 2000. 

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Publication | Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

We are very excited to announce that Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After, the book A/CA Project Manager Antoine Damiens recently co-edited with Marijke de Valck on the impact of Covid-19 on international film festivals, has just been published in open access with Palgrave Macmillan.

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