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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