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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. .
The VUCAVU.education Digital Platform Outreach Coordinator will work collaboratively with our team to launch and promote a new film and media arts dissemination service called VUCAVU.education, our NEW! educational access technology for institutional subscriptions.
The successful candidate will perform tasks associated with communications, outreach, partnership development, marketing, web content management and other tasks as needed.
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.
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.
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.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
"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.
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.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
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.
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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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
Jesse has a hard time getting home
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!
A veritable aesthetic fresco blending portrait, political documentary and experimental cinema, Miron : a man returned from outside the world recounts the people of Quebec’s collective journey through the work of their greatest poet, Gaston Miron.
Terra Velha is a visual and sonic study of disparate landscapes within the islands of the Azores
Inheriting her father’s studio, Jennifer Alleyn finds herself drawn to the intimate space, still exuding the artist’s imagination.
Comprising five hundred images McFadden assembled to investigate the nature of homosocial and queer male relationships, A Separate Peace includes the reading of an eponymous essay the artist wrote in response to this collection and the end of his longterm relationship.
A distinct world – that is often an isolated part of a larger world – is viscerally envisioned in this uniquely hand- processed film.
A displaced young girl, her overwhelmed older sister and the superhero that brings them together.
Visitors to the Carnegie Library Pittsburgh expound on a myriad of thoughts and opinions, while a caricaturist listens on and captures their likeness.
A woman creates a runway to fly up into the "clear blue" above an endless landscape.
The Goddess of Humanity is an imaginary deity safeguarding human rights.
A look at the mysterious and often misunderstood world of Hutterites in Manitoba.
An endearing portrait of a South Asian father as he attempts to give life and marital advice to his bodybuilding and image-obsessed son. This deeply touching, comedic short film is an autobiographical piece that stars the director’s own father.
The body in the techno craze? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency? Biopiracy and indigeneity? Military Robotics? Trafficking of women over the internet? E-Waste? Autobiographical and contemporary, this interpretation of the delusions and illusions of the technocultural era delivers us Out, Into This World….
A place called home, a North End poem.
Is the word “Indian” a label for Canadian Aboriginals to reject or reclaim?
A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.
A touching tribute to a life cut short too early.
When Marc Roger, a public reader, sets himself the challenge of walking from Saint-Malo, France, to Bamako, Mali, along with a donkey laden with books to be read aloud, filmmaker Catherine Hébert (The Other Side of the Country) joins him in Morocco, her camera rolling."
A lively look at the lives and musical roots of Aboriginal women from across North America.
It’s the Lone Ranger Show!
This collaborative work was made by Jaylene and Winona along with their mentor Jackie Traverse as an experimentation for their first film.
A look at how the community of Lake St. Martin First Nation was destroyed and displaced by water management policy.
There are many memories of childhood that have slipped through the cracks. Most that I can recollect were of the differences in myself in comparison to the others around. Taken away at one week of age from my Indian community and given to a white foster family, my experience of the authentic Indian and where my placement is, within this dream of authenticity, comes from an infected locale.
Filmmaker Jesse Green travels to his home community of Shoal Lake 40 interviewing people about the impacts of the City of Winnipeg aqueduct in the 100+ years since it was built
A video collage based on twenty-eight tracking shots of city scenes.
A diva is tied to a wooden 'lectric chair.
Meteors and lunar rocks seen through a microscope slowly morph into an interstellar landscape.
A noir melodrama about a librarian's struggle as she encounters the capricious behaviour of a would-be kennel owner who is searching for a reference.
Véronique bicycles through a looking glass, encountering surreal characters and schisms in reality and time.
Tender Loving Care takes blossoms and hues of spring as its visual source and then applies digital effects with psychedelic results.
Invisible spiritual and psychological issues permeate every aspect of life, and yet remain hidden in average experience. The transformation from suffering to joy is one such process, and is explored in this three-part piece that pays homage to the video art of the 1980s and 1990s.
This video work portrays the story of thousands of unemployed men who hopped freight trains for Ottawa demanding work, wages and an end to relief camps in 1935.
Self as Other was shot in studio with choreographer/dancer Peter Quanz & dancer Kristin Haight. They were directed to hold a difficult balancing pose for as long as possible. Playing between the languages of photography & video, this piece intends to portray the ambiguity of the male and female dancers' bodies.
Jeff is driving. Nydia is behind him. The motorcycle glides between cars and time is suspended. The trip ends and Nydia goes back to her monotonous routine. But everything is fine, Jeff will return.
Notions of externalized and internalized journeys, identity and place, and the mundane and the exotic are explored in a series of clips from an imagined nature documentary series. At question is our spiritual and psychological relationship with the land and how we project our unmet needs and desires onto it.
Three cleaning ladies launch a campaign to smash useless old plates in a discussion of surveillance and housework.