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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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
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.
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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.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
Is Ohio the fish or the phisher? The film’s sexual metaphor extends to artists, who use their own experiences as material for their work, becoming both fish and fisher, harvester and harvested. Ohio’s deeply personal documentary footage and audio recordings serve as the raw material for her exploration of class, art, and the performance of heterosexuality.
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!
"How to re-awaken the contemplative eye? to falter and be still. When my mother died, my mouth contracted and pressed its seed into my throat. i surrendered and resisted.
yaya/ayat explores identities, being lost in translation and distance through the eyes of a young woman.
The guertita, a white American woman, and the prietita, a South Asian Canadian woman, have an affair while on a tourist trip to Mexico.
Within the mystical spaces of a Judaic self-doubt, falls a dreaming painter from the fallen Polish city of Lodz.
3 groups of 3 young women of different ages (sixteen, nineteen and twenty one years old) question their relation towards femininity and the socially constructed notion of gender that stifles them.
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.
Short descriptionThe conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of the Caucasus.
The eponymous narrator (a ghost in the form of a coconut) resists a singular place and time, moving freely, if not lightly, through personal photographs, contemporary commentary and archival material.
After 15 years of living in Montréal, Hind returns to Morocco, her country of origin.
Imagine a place smaller in size than Quebec, along the shores of the Mediterranean, where more than 19 religious communities live together. Imagine that some people, in spite of a tormented history, have found the strength and the wisdom not to yield to sectarianism.
This animation combines fact, memory, self-reflection and fantasy with humour. Using finely wrought drawings, handcrafted textiles and girlish stickers, Moore examines and ultimately celebrates her relationship to her Ukrainian birth heritage through a remembered conversation with her adoptive mother.
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).
The film captures the diversity of the neighbourhood at that time.
It started with a shot in a back alley, rage and frustration. It ended with a rap video about intolerance. Produced through the Aboriginal Teen Video Initiative.
Video collage, documenting a week spent in Chicago.
A video collage based on twenty-eight tracking shots of city scenes.
Grand Chief Sheila North investigates unsolved murder of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
A 70s TV sitcom set around a young group of artists.
Half-breed Alice attempts to become queen and struggles with the Red Queen and the White Queen's disapproval of her racial transgressions. A funny and quirky take on race, this piece stars Cosmosquaw as the Red Queen, Shawna Dempsey as the White Queen, and Thirza Cuthand as Alice.
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A young Aboriginal girl's hopes and dreams are re-negotiated within the walls and tunnels of the institution of education.
"A re-creation of my journey to the sweat lodge ceremony through sound image and narration."
Réalisée à partir de sons et de slogans enregistrés entre autres lors d’une manifestation des sans-papiers à Paris en 2005, la vidéo explore la relation entre manifestation et architecture.
Between the abandoned factories and crumbling buildings of Griffintown is concealed Montreal’s oldest stable, last remnant of a time gone by.
The visual poetics of Vancouver are brought to light as the filmmaker reflects on the cities she has lived in, motherhood and the birth of her first son.
Invasive behaviours accumulate on the surface of water bodies and on the film itself.
“Perdere: to lose, to waste, to destroy” explores the rapidly deteriorating landscapes surrounding Tuktoyaktuk, NT along Canada’s northwest coast. Through contemplative drone footage and a soundscape using hydrophone and natural soundscape recordings, this work bears witness to the tragic effects of climate change along the shores of the Beaufort Sea.
An experimental short exploring the tenuous grasp the promises we make have on our lives.
St. John the Baptist, Performance/ Installation with video- 4 monitors and video projection "One may not be capable of loving, except for loving someone who loves." –Baudrillard.
One woman’s very personal story about her journey from hardship in Zimbabwe through the rigours of the immigration process to Canada.
For Canadian-born women of Chinese origin, the wearing of this dress is fraught with tensions between desire and fear, wonder and contestation.
In this video Hrabluik animates a three-legged figure through an absurd set of drawn instructions.
Denis et Monique partagent un grand amour. Mais la santé de Denis décline depuis plusieurs années, la maladie l'immobilisant de plus en plus.