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.
| Title | Artist | Duration | Year | Country | Acc. # |
| My Heart the Travel Agent | Wayne Yung | Canada | 2009 | 1:30 | 5025 |
| Journey | Ruby Truly | Canada | 1984 | 7:30 | 1484 |
| Peep Show | Eric Metcalfe (et-al) | Canada | 1985 | 10:00 | 1405 |
| Sunken Cave and a Migrating Bird | Qiuli Wu | China | 2019 | 10:31 | 7101 |
| Changing Parts | Mona Hatoum (et-al) | Canada | 1983 | 24:00 | 1406 |
| 18 Carat Affair – Lonely Eyes | Leonid Kalyadin | Russia | 2014 | 3:29 | 5433 |
| mom and her music | Rajee Paña Jeji Shergill | Canada | 2015 | 14:56 | 7020 |
| North East False Creek | Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte | Canada | 2011 | 28:11 | 5383b |
| Upstream | Russell Wallace | Canada | 2013 | 2:23 | 5380 |
| Tribute to Video Inners or a New Way of Working Collectively | Shawn Preus | Canada | 1978 | 7:49 | 7003 |
| Scissors | Cindy Mochizuki | Canada | 2016 | 19:38 | 7007 |
| A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose | Barry Doupé | Canada | 2003 | 15:43 | 6090 |
| The Glow is Gone | Ryan Ermacora | Canada | 2016 | 16:37 | 6044 |
| Falling Down: A Ballet for My Bedroom | Elizabeth Milton | Canada | 2013 | 5:07 | 4611 |
| Outeretina | Daniel Wechsler | Israel | 2014 | 4:05 | 4578 |
| Video Notebook: What is Violence? | Aaron Pollard | Canada | 1991 | 23:00 | 1898 |
| Catalyst | Kent Tate | Canada | 2017 | 3:30 | 6045 |
| Seven Day Activity | Paul Wong | Canada | 1977 | 13:00 | 1023 |
| Sax Island (WF) | Western Front Video (et-al) | Canada | 1983 | 12:00 | 1161 |
| Ten Dollars or Nothing | Sara Diamond (et-al) | Canada | 1988 | 12:00 | 1680a |