Visual Collections Repository

Join us on Wednesday at the VCR for a special halloween viewing of Bill Gun's surreal and hauntingly beautiful seminal take on Blaxploitation and horror, G***a & Hess (1973). 🩸 🦇 🧛‍♀️ You can find the link in our bio to register for this screening, seats are limited!!

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.

Date: 02/28/2023
Location: Mini Cinema (EV. 3.703), Concordia University.

*The event is free*
*seats are limited
First come, first serve*

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𝙎𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚
directed by Dionne Brand and Ginny Stikeman
1991
49 min
16mm
SISTERS IN THE STRUGGLE explores the diversity, vision and impetus of the contemporary Black women's movement in Canada. The women in this film are active in community work, electoral politics, and labour and feminist organizing. They contribute analysis and personal testimonies on Canada's legacy of racism and sexism.

Movie Night alert: Join us for the viewing of 𝙄 𝘼𝙢 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙗𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 and 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙨 tomorrow, February 23rd. This screening is organized by Archive/Counterarchive and supported by the VCR film collection.

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𝗜 𝗔𝗺 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆
by Madeline Anderson
1970
30min
"In 1969, 400 poorly paid black women working in a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, went on strike to demand union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves confronting the National Guard and the state government." (IMDb.com)

𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀
Portable Channel
1971
8min
Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, interviewed Sinclair Scott, a member of the negotiating team that went into Attica when the prisoners' rebelled at the federal prison in September 1971. This is only an excerpt of the interview.

Stan Douglas

Pages scanned from Television Spots - a publication about Stan Douglas’s series of very short films (ranging from 10 to 37 seconds).
These pages were scanned for Joana Joachim’s curatorial exhibition called Blackity - which delves into contemporary Black Canadian art (between 1970s - 2010s) from the Artexte archive. For more information about the exhibition, see link:
https://artexte.ca/en/exhibition/blackity/