This year’s Special Collections showcases feature works by artist’s between 1979 and 1993.

Choose a collection to view:

Historic British Columbia Video Art + Documentary Collection
Indigenous Video Art + Documentary Collection
Japanese Video Art Collection
Early Feminist Video
Historical Collection

Early Video Digitization Project Excerpts of selected early BC based documentary and video art from 1973-1985 are now viewable thanks to funding support of the I.K Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia Library.

To view the full work please contact us to request preview DVDs or visit our 4,000+ title collection 11-6 Tuesday through Saturday.

TitleArtistDurationYearCountryAcc. #
   Vancouver Co-op Radio C.R.T.C. Application Palladin Portapacks Canada 1973 20:00 0182
   Olympic Village 2 Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte Canada 2011 16:39 5383d
   Miami Vice – Air Deluxe Leonid Kalyadin Russia 2013 2:30 5429
   Sin∞Fin-Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass VestAndPage Argentina 2011 45:42 5385
   Sunken Cave and a Migrating Bird Qiuli Wu China 2019 10:31 7101
   Every Day is a Gift Estrail Boiso United States 2017 2:45 6088
   sin∞fin - Performances at the End of the World VestAndPage Chile 2009 38:52 5387
   General Public Identity Robert Hamilton Canada 2013 1:08 5376
   Upstream Russell Wallace Canada 2013 2:23 5380
   Vice Versa Robert Hamilton Canada 2013 2:39 5377
   The Art of Fugue Emilie Crewe Canada 2018 16:16 7048
   The Snows Russell Wallace Canada 2013 5:21 5378
   Pixelord - Biorobots Leonid Kalyadin Russia 2013 3:48 5430
   Waterside (The Crossing) Russell Wallace Canada 2013 2:38 5381
   Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things Mark Kenneth Woods (et-al) Canada 2015 71:00 4592
   North East False Creek Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte Canada 2011 28:11 5383b
   Seven Day Activity Paul Wong Canada 1977 13:00 1023
   Make War Daniel Wechsler Israel 2014 2:07 4579
   One Hundred Years Of Aggression Kim Tomczak Canada 1978 19:00 0989a
   Ethereal Pig Lansing Bruce Robertson Canada 2015 3:13 3085