NEW Talking Archives 2 episode available for viewing! The 5th episode of TA2 features Ghanaian-born artist and filmmaker Obarima Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah in conversation with Monika Kin Gagnon. On A/CA's Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/counterarchi... For more information: counterarchive.ca/talking-arch...

Images Festival's 38th Birthday Party Fundraiser. June 26th, 19h - Space Unltd, Toronto expcinema.org/site/en/even...

"Current large language models don’t simply automate tasks previously done by humans; they fundamentally change our relationship with information." - Oluseyi Noah Adebanjo, University of Arkansas at Little Rock https://loom.ly/4HFfByQ

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

New publication: "Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology" - with contributions by Almudena Escobar López, Victor Guimarães, Adam Piron, Raquel Schefer, and Federico Windhausen. Published by ICA expcinema.org/site/en/book...

Congratulations to the A/CA members presenting their research at FMSAC this week! For details about A/CA members’ events, collaborative workshops, panels, and individual paper presentations, click here: counterarchive.ca/aca-members-...

June 4 Tkaronto/Toronto Queer Cinema for Palestine 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Join us June 4 at 7pm at Innis Town Hall 🎟️ Free event! Please consider making a donation to help us cover the venue & speakers fee — remaining funds will be directed to Palestinian mutual aid projects www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

We are thrilled to share: Talking Archives 2, episode 4, featuring Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán in conversation with Monika Kin Gagnon about his film Option Zero, which focuses on the struggles of Cuban migrants journeying through Latin America to reach the US. See vimeo.com/counterarchi...

📚 The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) has donated more than 2,200 books on drug use & policy to #InternetArchive. A vital public resource preserved, ensuring continued access for researchers, healthcare providers & advocates working in drug policy. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/04/22/n...

Here's a preview of Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Interventions, a collaboration between A/CA, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Moving Image Research Lab (MIRL) at McGill U and the independent, artist-driven, Canadian bilingual streaming platform VUCAVU: vimeo.com/1071926927

Discover a NEW! educational guide created by our partners at Archive/Counter-Archive and Groupe Intervention Vidéo - Curated by Alanna Thain and Ylenia Olibet from the Moving Image Research Lab (MIRL)at McGill University - now on @vucavu.bsky.social @givideo.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social

We are proud to announce the new Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) educational guide by Archive/Counter-Archive. Now available on VUCAVU.com, vucavu.com/en/a-ca/educ...! Find out more here: counterarchive.ca/new-groupe-i... @givideo.bsky.social, @vucavu.bsky.social

Nous sommes fièr.es d'annoncer le lancement du nouveau guide pédagogique du Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) par Archive/Counter-Archive maintenant sur VUCAVU.com! @givideo.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social En savoir plus ici: vucavu.com/fr/aca-giv/l...

If you'll be in London next week, come chat about the (proposed) idea of "archival inquiry" at Mayday Rooms ! Hoping to bring together concepts & practices of "co-research" in relation to both archival labours and methods of historical research: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...

Don't miss the world premiere of Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance at the 2025 Toronto Hot Docs Festival, opening on Thursday, April 24th! This project was an incredible collaborative effort that includes several A/CA members. For more information, counterarchive.ca/parade-queer.... @hotdocs

New issue of JFP hot off the press!!! With a major dossier on "Women, Cinema, and Film Archives" and fab review of THE BAT 🦇📀 by @pamhutch.bsky.social !!! 😍🎞️ www.calameo.com/fiaf/books/0...

From the essay, “Cultural Preservation and Queer History,” by Brooke Palmieri, part of the Vanishing Culture report. Download the full report now ➡️ archive.org/details/vani... 🕳️ #VanishingCulture

How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole ➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...

Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story. forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7... imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

I want to give a quick shout-out to @transgenderarchive.bsky.social for Transgender Day of Visibility. Their work documenting and sharing trans lives through history is incredible and so important. Give them a follow and check out www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

One of our sponsored panels, Session L6, "Rewinding Tape Across Media: Archives of Ambivalence (A RoundTaple)," Saturday 11am, will be dedicated as a tribute to Jonathan Sterne, a space for SCMS members to reflect on what he has meant to them and to our field.

NEW! "Women, Art, and the Periphery & Latin American Video Art in the VIVO Media Arts Centre Archives", the 3rd of 3 Archive/Counter Archives' Educational Guides with our partners at VIVO! @counterarchive.bsky.social FIND IT HERE: vucavu.com/en/aca-vivo/...

Out now: Episode 3 of Talking Archives, Vol. 2, our online interview series featuring film scholar Monika Kin Gagnon in conversation with filmmakers, archivists, and researchers who presented at the 2024 Global Audiovisual Archiving (GAVA) Conference in Toronto in July 2024. vimeo.com/1065880671

NEW! Discover guide 2 of 3 the series of A/CA Educational Guides that @counterarchive.bsky.social created with our partners #VIVO titled Vancouver’s 1980s Feminist Debates: Pornography and Censorship in the Archives. vucavu.com/en/a-ca/educ...

March 15, 5pm in Toronto, ON: CFMDC and Archive/Counter-Archive present "Airplane Confessional" curated by A/CA Artist in Residence and CFMDC's Programs and Collections Coordinator Aaditya Aggarwal 📍 CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto, ON 🎟️ Free

OUT NOW: Feeling Colour by Bregt Lameris! Explore how midcentury cinema's vibrant colours reshaped sensory engagement, emotions & cultural perceptions. Blending media studies, biology & emotion theory, this book is perfect for film scholars & beyond! Discover here: buff.ly/FNZSMs4

Warm congratulations to Lesley Loksi Chan, whose short film Lloyd Wong, Interrupted recently received both the Golden Bear and Teddy Award for best short film at the 2025 Berlinale! counterarchive.ca/lesley-loksi...

attention film & media scholars! last month, The Movie Database, whose catalogue populates Letterboxd, removed hundreds of early moving image works in a new content policy. read why my colleagues & i think this is a mistake in our open letter. please consider signing: forms.gle/zCyZt9fMwYcj...

For Reverse Shot, I spoke with Zeinabu irene Davis about the rejuvenation of her incredible classic COMPENSATION — a film I think is one of the great films about Chicago, deafness and Black life.

Would be curious to engage some of these writings from the 1980s ! Seems like a really interesting and potentially overlooked series nowadays

Excited to be getting the opportunity to process these digital records in the near-future as we continue our work on the LGBT Seniors Archive!

Free Toronto screenings of two Indigenous films: Bastion Point: Day 507 (Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann) and Incident at Restigouche (Alanis Obomssawin) www.eventbrite.com/e/bastion-po...

27. VIDEOEX Festival - Int. Experimential Film & Video Festival Zürich 2025. May 16-25 - Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Watch the brand-new theatrical trailer for Matías Piñeiro's YOU BURN ME on @thefilmstage.bsky.social. The film opens Fri 3/7 at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social in NYC, followed by LA and Chicago. A @cinemaguild.com release. thefilmstage.com/exclusive-tr...

Radical, progressive, and not ‘all beer and skittles’: History of Nova Scotia newspapers www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Consulted big chunks of this stellar book in prepping my brief opening remarks on NOTHING BUT A MAN last night. Can't recommend THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF BLACK FILM: NOTHING BUT A MAN enough. Edited by David C. Wall + Michael T. Martin, Indiana University Press, 2015. iupress.org/978025301844...

Root & Branch -- complete archive of the libertarian socialist publication published from 1970-1982 up on Libcom: libcom.org/article/root...

Great news! The Digital Transgender Archive is on Bsky! Follow @transgenderarchive.bsky.social and share our hirstory, we need to spread the word now more than ever. #TransHistory #DTA #BlackHistoryMonth

A Woman's Place (1972) the-lcva.co.uk/videos/594bb...

Tickets now live for BLONDE DEATH AND OTHER AMERICAN PERVERSIONS, next month at Brain Dead Studios in LA. Features Jim Baker’s masterpiece plus other rare and long-unscreened videos from the EZTV archives studios.wearebraindead.com/movies/holly...

We are delighted to announce a new Virtual Special Issue on The New Left. This collection of 22 articles & podcasts is free-to-access - with work on May 68, the SCUM manifesto, Spies for Peace, Women's Liberation, the ANC, the Hungarian Uprising & more. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/virtual-issu...

On Deck - Live film performance by Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa at Cinecycle via LIFT, film + dance program Rituals of a Roving Body at York U, Ukraine doc INTERCEPTED + director at U of T. #toRep

www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/tra... #nightinthelibrary #pirateradio #brooklyn

To highlight new A/CA Educational Guides based on the VIVO case study on VUCAVU, we present "Revisiting In Visible Colours" which includes 3 films (by Mona Hatoum, Ruby Truly and Shu Lea Cheang), curated by Roya Akbari + Ana Valine and a curatorial essay Roya Akbari @counterarchive.bsky.social

We have 40+ speakers signed up for Open Hearing this Sunday, March 2nd, 3-7 pm at Cafeteria on Dupont. Kids welcome! Light food & drinks for sale! Manifestos, poems & diatribes on offer! Kiera Boult hosts and there will be a cowbell for anyone who goes over time: www.emilia-amalia.com/open-hearing/

★ FOCUS : MARIE-ANDRÉE BOIVIN & VICKY BLOUIN Deux réalisatrices, cinq nouveautés, plusieurs versions sous-titrées disponibles sur la page VSD du GIV ! ★ Cliquez le lien pour accéder aux œuvres de Boivin et Blouin en VSD ! vimeo.com/ondemand/foc...

Explore the literary & artistic practice that combines autobiography & critical theory with the editors of "Autotheories." @citylightsbooks.bsky.social hosts a free, virtual inquiry into #autotheory on March 1st! Register: https://citylights.com/events/autotheory-encounters-embodiments-critique/