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VUCAVU’s Digital Collections Assistant will perform tasks associated with bilingual communications, marketing, web content management, and other administrative tasks as needed. ** VUCAVU acknowledges the Government of Canada's Canada Summer Jobs program for their support of this position.
We are proud to announce the launch of Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Interventions in the GIV Collection. This bilingual educational guide was produced as part of the Through Feminist Lenses: Video Works at Groupe Intervention Vidéo Case Study, and is a collaboration between A/CA, Groupe Intervention Video (GIV), the Moving Image Research Lab (MIRL) at McGill, and VUCAVU. .
VUCAVU is delighted to launch three new programs in the Educational Guide series from Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA); a project and research network dedicated to the activation and preservation of audiovisual archives created by Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), Black communities and people of color, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities.
Fanny meets her high school friends for the annual Switch & Bitch Party.
This is video compilation is part of the educational guide produced as part of Archive/Counter-Archive’s (A/CA) Case Study, Through Feminist Lenses: Video Works at Groupe Intervention Vidéo with Groupe Intervention Vidéo.
A look at the community response to the murder of Nirmal Singh Gill, a caretaker at the Guru Nanak Gurudwara in Surrey BC by 5 white supremacist skinheads in 1998.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
"C'est à qui, cette ville?" is a response to the 1984 film, “Ville, Quelle Ville?” This original super 8 film documented various places in Toronto’s east end and reflected upon a young woman’s life in the city.
Chilean refugee Daniela (Carmen Aguirre) wants to travel back to Chile to learn more about her family as her father is reluctant to talk about his past. But she is about find out much more than she expected.
Did you know that many First Nations schools get less money than provincial schools? Shannen Koostachin, a young leader from Attawapiskat First Nation, knew this was wrong, and so does Spirit Bear.
VHS video documentation of The images, such as they are, do have an effect on us: CENSORSHIP dossier. The envelope and folders are opened and the contents examined.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
A shortened version of the synopsis that must be less than 500 characters in length. This teaser appears in a pop up when a user hovers their cursor on a title image in our search or other pages.
Digital video documentation of The images, such as they are, do have an effect on us: PORN Dossier. The envelope and folders are opened and the contents examined.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
While narrating letters written to her ex, a woman attempts to cast away the lingering shadows of the relationship and overcome feelings of rejection and failure.
Filmed sporadically and intuitively during the summer months of 2020 and 2021, Homunculi is a recontextualization of a personal archive of hand processed 16mm “home movies” and various cinematographic experiments.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
VHS video documentation of The images, such as they are, do have an effect on us: PORN Dossier. The envelope and folders are opened and the contents examined.
She Draws a Circle reflects on the work of generations of women to interrupt cycles of violence and oppression, looking to the ways in which our spiritual connections to the land and one another help us to hold space for regenerative healing, bringing the hidden to light drawing on that light to encircle each successive generation.
Since launching our platform in 2017, VUCAVU has collaborated with several curators and arts organizations from across Canada to present film and media art programs. Each program includes a text exploring the themes addressed, and many also include recordings of roundtable discussions and artist talks for you to discover!
Gerry Barret: The Original Aboriginal takes us from studio interview to the stage at Rumor’s Comedy Club and the Cat Sass Tavern. Gerry’s repertoire includes topics like: what should an Indian D.J. sound like on the radio?... A day in the life of Canada’s first native prime minister... a ballad to Elijah Harper and much more, including a stop at a movie shoot.
Year by year, the “Canadian” style of pronunciation is challenged by a deluge of U.S.A. media. By peering into the mists of his own childhood, Ferris presents a tongue-in-cheek look at what our alphabet may once have been -- with subliminal Canadiana thrown in for good measure.
A film crew journeys to resurrect a lost film, taking it to the communities where the film was originally shot. Images come to life; people recognize faces, landscapes, and lost traditions.
Toronto, July 27, 2013, shortly after midnight.
In the single-channel video "Hybred", artist Christine Kirouac translates a conversation with her mother into an exploration of the stereotypes and subjectivities surrounding her Métis identity (Cree/Irish).
An ode to my daily environment.
Women talk about commercial and natural beauty.
This work reflects on the state of public identity.
The Depth of Scars
"You're just a woman.... smile and relax."
"The Magus" is a multi-format, process-based experimental film that explores the root of artistic creation.
On a hill, a girl re-imagines her journey of survival. Spoken word and layered visuals create an intense urban tale of personal transformation.
Retro children’s TV takes a comical jab when one letter of the alphabet gets a new association.
The 1990 Oka crisis from the perception of a child and performed by the survivors, 25 years later.
A split-screen video of the Trans-Canada Highway and the single Access Road on our Reserve, the Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation / Nezaatiikang, located north-west of Thunder Bay. Before the completion of the Access road in the late 2000's, the Reserve was only accessible by water. The roads work as metaphor of Colonization by revealing disparity between Canada and Indigenous Nations.
A woman reconnects with her grandmother's past through drawings done by Daphne Odjig
Waking up after thousands of years of being encased in ice, the voice of a creature is heard, emerging to find that the world is a much different place, although some things remain the same, he is hungry, and he is still an Apex predator, at the top of the food chain. The soundtrack is composed of samples of audio from the largest mass calving event in recorded history (when arctic ice melts and collapses into the ocean). There's a new monster in town.
A Johannesburg neighourhood unites five people’s ambitions, desires, and struggles to survive over the course of a Friday.
An experimental documentary that abstracts the roads I travel on a daily basis.
A young Aboriginal man's thoughts and emotions iterate his personal growth through this lyrical story.
Dedicated to the artist’s father, this experimental tape begins sorting through identities contaminated by the generalized racism of white society and its degrading commercial exploitation of Native culture, i.e., “Indian” drums and doll souvenirs. Five young natives search for reconnection to their families, their stories, traditions and their role within community.
Burning an Effigy considers intergenerational legacies of the Indian residential schools, the colonial presence, and its persistent impacts on community.
A look at how the community of Lake St. Martin First Nation was destroyed and displaced by water management policy.
An examination of how art and truth come into conflict at the trial of a young man accused of rape.
CVS (Computer Vision Syndrome) is part of the AVATAR series exploring methods of creating, validating and disseminating one’s identity through the use of technology and the Internet.
This film is available in French only.
Reflecting upon power, madness, and poverty, this tape superimposes three matrix scenes: images of a rambling man from Santiago; footage from a Chilean TV program featuring Pinochet commemorating the military coup; and images of a community from the periphery of Santiago during a cultural and artistic gathering.
Five lifelong friends. Four are fearful of their future. One must face the fact that she may not have one.
Dans une grande majorité de sociétés, reconnaître une filiation à un couple, c’est lui donner la possibilité de se perpétuer et de faire partie de l’histoire humaine. Quand on refuse la filiation aux homosexuels, on leur refuse le droit de faire partie de l’histoire humaine. Ce qui est particulier au Québec...
Founder: Noun- a person who establishes an institution or settlement. Verb- (of a ship) fill with water and sink. (of a plan or undertaking) fail or break down.
Une trentaine d’enfants en difficulté provenant d’un milieu défavorisé de Montréal sont soumis à des questions philosophiques.
Only by looking back, there is an understanding of finding yourself on a moon-like space.
milkteeth is an investigation into the imperfection of memory and attempts at preserving the ephemeral.
A pornographic parody, that advocates the use of feminism as lesbian foreplay.