Thurs., Feb. 26, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 401 Richmond St. W, 4th floor
This is a paid-admission screening; get tickets here.

Everyone has a mother. You probably had one yourself. The films in this program each represent a dialogue between the generations – from mother to daughter, and back again. Both tender and fractious, these accounts of the mother/daughter relationship, or of matriarchal legacies, define matrescence on its own symbiotic terms. Curated by Lexie Corbett.

The Influences of My Mother, Sara Diamond, 1982, 24:00

Nora, Caroline Langill, 1993, 3:16 & Angel in the House, Caroline Langill, 1988, 2:24

Tempest in a Teapot, Amy Gottlieb, 1987, 4:00

Supercat, Mary Cross, 1998, 3:00

Dear Mom, Diane Bonder, 1996, 13:00

Subrosa, Helen Lee, 2000, 22:00

Join us after the screening in conversation with returning filmmaker Helen Lee.

ABOUT THE SERIES:
This is the Feminist Archive: Feminist Film and Video 1970s-1990s
The events in the series, screenings accompanied by conversations with the artists, recontextualize feminist film and video work as constitutive of archival futures; a future imperfect: what will be seen to have been. The films and videos in the programs come from the last three decades of the 20th century when feminist political organizing was inextricable with women’s cultural production. This screening series emerges from the SSHRC-funded project “The Personal is Digital: Remediating and Digitizing Canada’s Intergenerational Feminist & Queer Media Heritage.” The 2026 iteration of the series is directed and curated by Drs. Marusya Bociurkiw with administration and additional curation by Lexie Corbett.

Image credit: Supercat, by Mary Cross (1998)

Special thanks to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, The National Film Board.

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Our February Video of the Month is ZION (2022), by brand-new Vtape artist Jard Lerebours!

About this work, Jard says, “Black people have always practiced world-building, a tool in our fixation on imagining and venturing towards collective liberation. ZION is a new take on the Rastafarian concept of Zion, the great escape from Babylon and its oppressive structures. I envision ZION as inextricably tied to the Buddhist concept of nirvana, the release from the cycle of death and rebirth. ZION captures simplistic and mundane moments of Black joy that seek to subvert the forces against us.”

February is Black History Month/African Heritage Month in Canada!

Image credit, home page: ZION, by Jard Lerebours (2022)

Thursday, March 12th, 6:00 p.m.
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West

Join us for an exclusive exhibition walk-through with Jesse King, curator of the City of Toronto’s Market Gallery exhibition SKY & BONE (401 Richmond St. West, suite 128) at 5:30 p.m. After that, at 6:00 p.m., the Market Gallery and Vtape present a special screening of Robert’s Paintings (directed by Shelley Niro), an intimate and deeply moving portrait of acclaimed artist Robert Houle. Experience how Houle transforms memory into art, using his paintings as powerful sites of testimony, where childhood experiences, Canada’s colonial history, and the stories of others who walked similar paths come vividly into view. Attend this screening to witness art as memory, resistance, and remembrance.

FREE tickets are available here.

Image credit: Robert’s Paintings, by Shelley Niro (2011)

Presented By TD Bank Group, Toronto History Museums