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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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...

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Talking Archives 2, Episode 5: Obarima Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah

Watch the fifth episode of Talking Archives 2, our online interview series, produced by A/CA researchers, Monika Kin Gagnon and Elina Lex, featuring conversations…

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"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 loom.ly/4HFfByQ

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Archival Outlook May/June 2025 Page 4

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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...

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Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology explores the radical practice of one of today's most prolific and politically charged film collectives. Emerging in 2012, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos challenges cin...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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-...

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Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre @cfmdcfilm.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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...

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Talking Archives 2 Episode 4 - Marcel Beltrán

Watch the fourth episode of Talking Archives 2, our online interview series produced by Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA) researchers Monika Kin Gagnon and Elina Lex,…

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/04/2025

📚 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...

A collection of books from the new Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) collection

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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

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Desire Lines - Trailer

This is "Desire Lines - Trailer" by Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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VUCAVU.COM | VUCAVU.education | VUCAVU.éducation @vucavu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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

rectangular promotional image. background image is still from Cathy Sisler's Aberrant Motion #1: a city street scene, in which a tall figure in a long black coat walks dramatically in front of a large red Pharmaprix sign.

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VUCAVU.COM | VUCAVU.education | VUCAVU.éducation @vucavu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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...

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Lignes de désir

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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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

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Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance | Hot Docs

Revisit the pivotal moments and courageous actions that ignited Canada’s 2SLGBTQ+ movement. From early struggles to landmark victories, this powerful reminder of how quickly rights can be taken away h...

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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...

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JOURNAL OF FILM PRESERVATION #112, April 2025

Journal of Film Preservation, No.112, April 2025

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 02/04/2025

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

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Thomas Padilla @thomaspadilla.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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/

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IMLS Matters

Responses to this form will be published at https://imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

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LGBTQ History @lgbtqhistory.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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

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Digital Transgender Archive

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NPR @npr.org · 31/03/2025

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.

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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave

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.

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Sound & Music SIG @soundmusicscms.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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.

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VUCAVU.COM | VUCAVU.education | VUCAVU.éducation @vucavu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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/...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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

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Talking Archives 2 Episode 3: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

Watch the third episode of Talking Archives 2, our online interview series, produced by A/CA researchers, Monika Kin Gagnon and Elina Lex, featuring conversations…

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VUCAVU.COM | VUCAVU.education | VUCAVU.éducation @vucavu.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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...

Filmmaker Lesley Chan [short dark pixie cut hair; blue striped jacket and white shirt with puffy sleeves and black polka dots) holding the golden bear award [red velvet square with round gold medallion w/ a bear on its hind legs] at Berlinale 75

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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...

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 19/02/2025

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.

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Zeinabu irene Davis (Compensation)

when I initially designed the sound, I wanted there to be a full expression of it for deaf and hard of hearing audiences to actually feel the sound design. Deaf people can experience sound. But they d...

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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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

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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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!

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Kawai 加鬼 Shen 👻 @kawaishen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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...

Black and yellow flat illustration of 70s riot police walking down a road and a black and red title card reading "Incident at Restigouche."

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Radical, progressive, and not 'all beer and skittles': History of Nova Scotia newspapers - Halifax Examiner

The Nova Scotia Archives is a treasure trove of news.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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...

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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/02/2025

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...

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The New Left

In this new and free-access Virtual Special Issue, Andrew Whitehead brings together almost 50 years of writing and reflection on the New Left

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Torontoplex @torontoplex.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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VUCAVU.COM | VUCAVU.education | VUCAVU.éducation @vucavu.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

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Gabby Moser @gabbymoser.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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/

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OPEN HEARING - EMILIA–AMALIA

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Groupe Intervention Vidéo @givideo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

★ 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...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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: citylights.com/events/autotheory-en…

Hand holding a copy of "Autotheories" against a white background.

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