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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. .
In recognition of May 5th' National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQIA+ People, VUCAVU invites you to revisit the works from a curated program we did with NIMAC in 2023 called "Red Dress Day". The program features the following four videos by Indigenous women that explore the ideas of ceremony, hope, frustration, relationship to the land, and spirituality by Jaime Black, Kristin Snowbird, Katherine Boyer and Dana Claxton.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
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.
Artist talk with Nelson Wu (With Audio Description)
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!
An experimental documentary that explores the complicated process of decolonization and reveals how our memory and history are ingrained in our sense of identification.
Change of life? Shedding skin? The political context might confuse its' situation, but the narrator insists : Jacques can still hope.
Hand-drawn illustrations animate this touching personal story about the "60’s Scoop” of Aboriginal children into the Canadian child-welfare system.
Don’t Blink For 45 Seconds (After Kathy Dillon) is a 45 second performative video work addressing the thresholds and limitations of the body in relation to control.
Trying to revisit her pre-baby days by taking a trip to China, the filmmaker realize how much she has changed.
Disoriented and alone, a man wakes to find himself in a place long-abandoned. With only vague memories of his surroundings, the man relies on his instincts to discover his purpose and survive the crippling isolation.
This documentary of the artist's father is in Cantonese with English subtitles. The visual image is expressed by a technique called stop-motion painting where each stroke is recorded for 2 to 3 seconds. The footage is sped up to create a fluid painting motion. Documentary of My Father is about Lam's father before she knew him personally, before she was born.
Haunted by visions of serpents and taunted by dark thoughts, a young woman addresses what might be a family curse.
Irreverent homage to the city of my birth.
"Un jour au camp Francosurvie" is a documentary that follows a group of youths (18-24) during their time at a French language summer camp in Maskwa Manitoba.
Short descriptionThe conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of the Caucasus.
When human souls break up, they seem irreconcilable. Is there an antidote for heartbreak?
Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history and the process of reconstruction in the post-war era.
For over sixty years, loving grandmother Cecile St. Amant has been keeping a deep secret - she is Métis.
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.
a Tribute to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWGs)
Set to music by Little Hawk, this animated and starkly honest story is a daughter’s tribute to her estranged mother.
Is the word “Indian” a label for Canadian Aboriginals to reject or reclaim?
Everyone sees. No one tells.
After years of repression, an old woman's common sense goes head-to-head with the fantastic imagination of her inner child, who yearns to be free.
milkteeth is an investigation into the imperfection of memory and attempts at preserving the ephemeral.
Filmmaker Coleen Rajotte returns to Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario, a community with an unusually high suicide rate.
The primo tourist spot, Coney Island, as seen by a wandering heart.
This first music video from Vidéo Femmes puts images and special effects to Michel Rivard's eponymous ballad, performed by Sylvie Tremblay.
In this video, performance artist, Bridget Moser interacts with an elaborate collection of therapeutic props.
Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.
L’œil du spectateur s’arrête sur l’image d’une femme, entraperçue entre des rideaux noirs translucides.
This video (translated as A MILE OF CROSSES ON THE ROAD), is based on the first ‘art action’ performed by the artist. It consists of the repeated alteration of a sign and the projection (film/video) of the documentation of that action at the same site. The artist’s voice “No, no, I was not happy” marks the beginning of the tape.
Agenda follows clues to a mysterious woman and her continuous re-invention.
A sustained shot of reflections of urban street counterpointed with a disembodied voice posing existential question and answer.
BOOK OF KNIVES is based on seven psychiatric case histories dating from 1905 up to the present. These stories are linked through the interrogation of a modern day woman, Iris, who has murdered her plastic surgeon. “Book of Knives” is a short history of women, technology & madness in the twentieth century, and calls into question both the ethics and methodologies of western scientific enquiry.
"In the Kingdom of Shadows" documents a paragraph being typeset on an early twentieth-century Ludlow Linecaster. The text is taken from Maxim Gorky's 1896 review of the Lumiere Brothers' film "Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat" (1895). As the words melt into a pool of lead, the alchemical magic of printing is linked to that of cinema.
A computer gilded tribute to the family farm in Southern Ontario.
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