Visual Collections Repository

Join us at the VCR for a screening of Natalie Wood’s experimental short, Time Will Come (2018) and Dionne Brand’s documentary Long Time Comin’ (1993).

This selection of films were pulled from a program curated by one of our past curators-in-residence, Desirée de Jesús. Her residency project, a curated film series called rupture//rapture, creates spaces and evokes a practice to think through Black life and the meanings associated with its audiovisual representation.

The link to register can be found in the linktree in our bio!

Desirée's short film, ASK ME WHAT MY NAME IS, is currently being shown in the FOFA Gallery’s Black Box for the Black Arts Series Film Screening in collaboration with the , and the VCR.

The screening Looking In, Looking Out showcases the work of six Black creatives who are part of the Concordia community. The short films are available to watch until December 15th!

Hey everyone! We’re happy to announce VCR’s new curators-in-residence: Juan Ospina + Santiago Tavera!

Juan Ospino is a Colombian-born writer and filmmaker and Film curator-in-residence. He recently graduated with a BFA in Film Studies and has focused his interests on films and representation of immigrants and diasporic communities.

Santiago Tavero is a Colombian-Canadian artist, researcher, graduate of the MFA Intermedia program and Image curator-in-residence. Tavera’s intermedia practice revolves around constructing immersive and interactive projects that expand the body and perception through digital media, to evoke virtual simulations of migrant and q***r narratives of dislocation.

The two residents will curate a series of films and images created by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. This residency program aims to diversify the collection and support more inclusive pedagogy.

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Welcome back! Today is the first day of classes and we are thrilled to start the Winter Semester! Come visit us at EV. 703 to check our collections.

Untitled In The Metro is a 16mm student film shot in 1977 in Montreal. Come and watch our student film collection!

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Directed by Gerard Laniel
preserved by VCR
restored by Alyosha Nowlin and Brian Virostek