Archive Counter-Archive and Vtape present: 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 and community organizations, and was screened on cable access television.
Vimeo page and educational guide
Tokyo Reels
Twenty film reels, U-matic tapes, books, posters, documents, among other objects. These have been collected by a Japanese Palestine solidarity group throughout the 1970s and some of the ‘80s.
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 Palestine specific to Japan at the time. The films were made by Palestinian, Arab, Japanese and American filmmakers and journalists, and were commissioned by various political bodies, TV stations, and UNRWA.
<a href="https://interferencearchive.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interference Archive</a>
<span>"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, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements." - <a href="https://interferencearchive.org/who-we-are/about/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interference Archive</a></span>
<strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://interferencearchive.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">InterferenceArchive.org</a>
Debt Archive
Debt
"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 that will live past this current crisis and serve as a lesson to future generations on the devastating effects of educational financialization as well as a blueprint for transforming this broken system into one that works for the holistic benefit of our entire society not just for the accounting sheet of a few billionaires. " - <a href="https://archive.org/details/debt_archive_open_call" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Archive.org</a>
<a href="https://archive.org/details/@human_trash_dump?tab=reviews" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Human Trash Dump</a>
<strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://archive.org/details/debt_archive_open_call" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Archive.org</a>
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 documents, open letters, and protest photos. This site is dedicated to documenting and sharing these activist histories for research, teaching, and learning.
website and collection
Digital Transgender Archive
Trans History Linked
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 world. Based in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern University, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than sixty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/
Luta ca caba inda: (The struggle is not over yet)
archive, third cinema, Guinea-Bissau
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 César, Sana na N’Hada, Flora Gomes and Suleimane Biai and has brought forth numerous results of different forms, a.o. a mobile cinema through Guinea-Bissau, a conference in Guimarães, Portugal, the books Luta ca caba inda and An archive in relation as well as several films by Filipa César, all made as unique collaborations with others, among them Spell Reel which premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2017.
Luta ca caba inda, FILIPA CESAR
<a href="https://lcva.gold.ac.uk/items?splash=true">London Community Video Archive</a>
video, vhs, archive, london, activism
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 embodied in smartphones — became available for the very first time back in the early 1970s, making it possible for individuals and communities to make their own television. The medium was taken up by people ignored or under-represented in the mainstream media – tenants on housing estates, community action groups, women, black and minority ethnic groups, youth, gay and lesbian people, and the disabled. With an overriding commitment to social empowerment and to combating exclusion, 'Community Video' dealt with issues which still have a contemporary resonance — housing, play-space, discrimination, youth arts.
Originated by Heinz Nigg and Andy Porter, and developed by Tony Dowmunt, Heinz Nigg and Andy Porter, with input from Ed Webb-Ingall
Media Burn Archive
VHS, Video, Archive, Chicago,
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 through a social justice lens.
<a href="https://radicalfilmnetwork.com/directory/">Radical Film Network</a>
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 sustainability.
https://radicalfilmnetwork.com/directory/
<a href="https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/public-engagement/working-groups/vhs-archives">VHS Archives Working Group</a>
Researching and using analogue archives of vulnerable people
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 VHS collections currently held by organizations, scholars, artists, and activists. Each month a member of the working group will present their archive and the questions, difficulties, surprises, losses and bounty it holds. The group will use each test case as a fertile opportunity to better frame their own video archives, and the broader questions raised by holdings of media nearing format-obsolescence.
CUNY Grad Center, The Center for the Humanities
Anthony Freeman, Tara Mateik, Amy Herzog, Shanti Avignon, Greg Mihalko, Jaime Shearn Coan, Rachel Mattson, Claire Fox, Daniel Flores, Helena Shaskevich, Kyle Croft, Rhea Tapp, Maile Thiesen, Devika Sen, Kat Roberts, Ann Matsuuchi, Michael Henry Grant, Ted Kerr, Jenna Freedman, Jean Carlomusto, Lisa Cohen, Ethel Moore, Erik RIley
<a href="https://xfrcollective.wordpress.com">XFRCollective</a>
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, and pop-up events. Operating through a non-hierarchical model, we work to create an inclusive environment in which to explore practical methods for media preservation, archiving, and access.
<a href="http://womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu/">Edited By</a>
A survey of 206 editors who invented, developed, fine-tuned and revolutionized the art of film editing.
Su Friedrich
<a href="https://blackfilmarchive.com/">Black Film Archive</a>
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.
<a href="https://actupny.org/divatv.1.html">DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists)</a>
DIVA TV was founded in 1989 as a video-documenting affinity group
with ACT UP AIDS COALITION TO UNLEASH POWER, an activist group famous for its direct action against bureaucratic neglect and drug company profiteering in the AIDS crisis and widely acknowledged as re-energizing civil disobedience tactics in the United States. DIVA TV documents public testimony, the media, and community activism to motivate the fight against AIDS.
ACT UP Oral History Project
The <a href="https://actuporalhistory.org/">ACT UP Oral History Project is</a> an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.
The project is coordinated by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, with principal camera work by James Wentzy (and additional camerawork in California by S. Leo Chiang and Tracy Wares and in London by Souleyman Messalti.)
<a href="https://visualaids.org/artists">Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry</a>
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 them reach new audiences. The Artist+ Registry is open to all HIV+ artists.
Visual AIDS
<a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/solomon-sir-jones-films-1924-1928">Solomon Sir Jones Films, 1924-1928</a>
The Solomon Sir Jones films consist of 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 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 contains approximately 150 feet of orange base B-wind positive.
Solomon Sir Jones
Yale University Library
<a href="https://blacktransarchive.com">The Black Trans Archive</a>
An interactive archive made to store and centre Black trans people.<span>Built from the ground up by Black trans coders and developers.</span>
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a>
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
From Third Cinema to Media Justice
<a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/thirdworldmajority/index">Third World Majority</a> was one of the first women of color media justice collectives in the United States. It operated from 2001 to 2008.
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 years of their existence as a collective and a collection of scholarly pieces, historical retrospectives, and other dialogues with the work of Third World Majority
Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Kara Keeling, eds.
Kara Keeling, Carrie Rentschler, Lena Palacios, Alexandra Juhasz, micha cardenas
Sillywish #5
Jenna Freeman digitized a single zine, Sillywish #5, by Ocean Capewell, with her consent and participation, allowing for a page by page close reading of this text, written by the then 14-year-old queer Long Islander
Built in conversation with the VHS Archives Working Group, The Center for the Humanities, The Grad Center, CUNY
Jenna Freeman
<a href="https://newmedialab.cuny.edu/project/digital-archive-of-the-new-york-womens-video-festivals/">Digital Archive of the New York Women’s Video Festivals</a>
A project made with the Analog Archive Tool from the VHS Archives Working Group.
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 a significant, but largely forgotten moment in feminist media. Originally hosted by the Kitchen, an avant-garde intermedia art venue, the festivals were eventually moved to the Women’s Interart Center, a hotbed of feminist art and politics in Hell’s Kitchen.
Helena Shaskevich, Art History, CUNY
<a href="https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8c253b7/">Tranny Fest Collection</a>
Finding aid created by GLBT Historical Society staff using RecordEXPRESS
GLBT Historical Society
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 and performances. These materials have not been sorted. The collection also includes administrative records; programming materials; email correspondence; festival publicity, including programs, press releases and press kits; ephemera; posters; photographs; and news clippings and articles about the festival.
<a href="http://missingmovies.org/">The Missing Movies Manifesto</a>
As an ad hoc group of film lovers and professionals, we have come together to create Missing Movies to empower filmmakers, distributors, archivists, and others to locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate for policies and laws to make the full range of our cinema history available to all.
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 companies controlling the most popular streaming services and trying to outdo one another with original content, many older movies are being left behind.
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 companies controlling the most popular streaming services and trying to outdo one another with original content, many older movies are being left behind.
Paik’s Video Study
Nam June Paik Art Center is unveiling <a href="https://njpart.ggcf.kr/paiks-video-study/">Paik’s Video Study</a> (njpvideo.ggcf.kr), 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 through his video work, as well as a realization of his hope that Nam June Paik Art Center would become the worldwide leader among museums in researching his video archive. By improving access to the institution’s public resources, Paik’s Video Study is expected to help awaken new interest in the artist.
Nam June Paik Art Center