Sister Sites

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Sister Sites

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Activist, queer, feminist, anti-racist, experimental, and related video archives committed to saving and sharing alternative media culture online.

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Transgender Media Portal
The Transgender Media Portal is similar to IMDb but it’s exclusively focused on highlighting the work of trans+* creators. Jump through the Portal to explore thousands of trans-made films, television shows, and online videos! You can search for media…

In Them We All Exist: Reflections and Resources on Black Lesbian Herstory in the Archives
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the 25th anniversary of the Schomburg Center’s In The Life Archive, Digital Schomburg is thrilled to share our dual-publication, digital flipbook and limited edition printed…

Queer and Trans Safer Sex Project
This website is part of Dr. Chris Barcelos's Queer and Trans Safer Sex project, which combines archival and interview-based research on the politics of queer and trans safer sex practices. The objectives of this website are to archive historical and…

Collective Visions: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Media
We invite you to join us on Monday and Tuesday November 16th and 17th to re-activate this archival document again through three intergenerational engagements. Original participants will converse with new generations of queer/feminist mediamakers and…

VHS Archives Working Group
Research group on analogue media with an emphasis on AIDS, queer health and sexuality.

"Women of Vision" Research Meeting on Feminist Film and Video History, NYC 1994
Filmmaker and scholar, Alexandra Juhasz, holds a research meeting, the second of five, this one at Women Make Movies in NYC in 1994. Over its four hours, the meeting is attended by more than twenty-five local media feminists, many of them a who's who…

Sillywish #5
We shared a zine, page by page, with room for your interaction and comments from the Barnard zine collection.

Digital Archive of the New York Women’s Video Festivals
My project aims to create a digital archive of the 1970s New York Women’s Video Festivals (NYWVF). Founded by Steina Vasulka and organized by artist Susan Milano, and coordinated by Ann Volkes and Shridhar Bapat, among others, the festivals represent…

Miss Video 4 U
For every 10 videos Miss Video receives, she compiles the videos onto a single USB. She then makes 10 copies of this USB to be distributed to each contributor in the group, or dive. Along with the videos, contributors are invited to share a zine page…

Educational Guide on Toronto Living With AIDS


Toronto Living With AIDS (TLWA) was a 1990-91 public access cable TV program that provided information about HIV/AIDS directly to affected communities. TLWA was coordinated by Michael Balser and John Greyson in collaboration with numerous artists…

Tokyo Reels
The twenty film reels, packaged in canisters and boxes labelled and marked with film titles, dates, some production and distribution details, present a collection of films rendering a history of political mobilisation and solidarity making with…

Interference Archive
The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions,…

Debt Archive
"You are invited to the Debt Archive, a platform for sharing your personal testimonies around student debt; its effects on you, your career, education, and/or the general trajectory of your life. These stories will be collected into a digital archive…

SNAP: Students News and Protest Archive
The Feminist SNAP archive is a collection of materials related to student activism around sexual violence, primarily on the McGill University campus. Spanning over 50 years, the collection includes materials like student newspaper articles, policy…

Digital Transgender Archive
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the…

Luta ca caba inda: (The struggle is not over yet)
uta ca caba inda: The struggle is not over yet is an ongoing research project on the film history of Guinea-Bissau which began when a partially preserved film archive resurfaced in Bissau in 2012. The project was initiated and is conducted by Filipa…

London Community Video Archive
Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, the London Community Video Archive (LCVA) will preserve, archive and share community videos made in the 1970s/80s in London and the South East. Portable video recording — now a technology routinely…

Media Burn Archive
Media Burn Archive is a 501(c)3 nonprofit in Chicago that collects, produces, and distributes documentary video created by artists, activists, and community groups. Our mission is to use archival media to deepen context and encourage critical thought…

Radical Film Network
The Radical Film Network was founded in 2013 when a group of activists, academics, filmmakers and programmers involved in radical film culture in the UK met to discuss the ways in which they could work together to support its development, growth and…

VHS Archives Working Group
The VHS Archives Working Group brings together scholars, students, librarians, archivists, technologists and community members interested in discussing questions, concerns and best practices about the use, preservation, digitization, and research of…

XFR Collective
XFR Collective partners with artists, activists, and community organizations to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media – especially unseen, unheard, or marginalized works – through digitization, screenings, educational workshops,…

Edited By
A survey of 206 editors who invented, developed, fine-tuned and revolutionized the art of film editing.

Black Film Archive
Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films. In its current iteration, it showcases Black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming.

ACT UP Oral History Project
The ACT UP Oral History Project is an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.

Visual AIDS
The Artist+ Registry is the largest database of works by artists with HIV/AIDS. It offers a unique resource to inspire and educate the public. Visual AIDS assists artists with HIV/AIDS, while preserving a visual record of their work and helping…

Solomon Sir Jones Films, 1924-1928
The Solomon Sir Jones films consist of 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928. The films measure 12,800 feet (355 min). All films are B-wind positive prints, except one roll that…

Black Trans Archive
An interactive archive made to store and centre Black trans people. Built from the ground up by Black trans coders and developers.

Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

From Third Cinema to Media Justice
From Third Cinema to Media Justice: Third World Majority and the Promise of Third Cinema is a collaborative multi-media archive and scholarship project consisting of an archive that contains the materials produced by Third World Majority during the…

Sillywish #5
Built in conversation with the VHS Archives Working Group, The Center for the Humanities, The Grad Center, CUNY

Digital Archive of the New York Women's Video Festivals
My project aims to create a digital archive of the 1970s New York Women’s Video Festivals (NYWVF). Founded by Steina Vasulka and organized by artist Susan Milano, and coordinated by Ann Volkes and Shridhar Bapat, among others, the festivals represent…

Tranny Fest Collections
The Tranny Fest Collection documents the film festival from 1997-2003. The bulk of the collection consists of the Tranny Fest Media Library, which includes films submitted to the festival, trailers for Tranny Fest and recordings of Tranny Fest events…

The Missing Movie Manifesto
There is an immediate need to address this issue. The truth is that movies are simply not as available today as they were during the heyday of VHS when some brick-and-mortar video stores carried tens of thousands of titles. Now, with a few giant…

Paik’s Video Study
An archive streaming system for the artist’s video work. This platform allows users to enjoy the world’s only Nam June Paik’s video archives in an online environment. Paik’s Video Study is a digital archive that offers a glimpse at his artistic ideas…
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