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. # |
| Impressions on Filmscapes | Pedro Ferreira | Portugal | 2013 | 7:07 | 4577 |
| Whaty | Barry Doupé | Canada | 2011 | 00:30 | 6096 |
| South East False Creek | Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte | Canada | 2011 | 21:11 | 5383a |
| ComposingYou_Chinatown | Judy Jheung | Canada | 2017 | 7:44 | 6065 |
| Tribute to Video Inners or a New Way of Working Collectively | Shawn Preus | Canada | 1978 | 7:49 | 7003 |
| Sin∞Fin-Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass | VestAndPage | Argentina | 2011 | 45:42 | 5385 |
| Nobuo Kubota At The Western Front | Nobuo Kubota | Canada | 1990 | 14:00 | 1839 |
| Eye Witness | Lynn Hershman | United States | 1985 | 2:08 | 1562c |
| Crosscuts | Tijmen Hauer (et-al) | Canada | 2010 | 4:00 | 5014 |
| Line In The Sand | Tomas Borsa (et-al) | Canada | 2014 | 80:00 | 5404 |
| The Negotiating Table | Mona Hatoum (et-al) | Canada | 1982 | 20:00 | 1792 |
| Sunken Cave and a Migrating Bird | Qiuli Wu | China | 2019 | 10:31 | 7101 |
| Make War | Daniel Wechsler | Israel | 2014 | 2:07 | 4579 |
| North East False Creek | Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte | Canada | 2011 | 28:11 | 5383b |
| Gutter | Paul Wong (et-al) | Canada | 1975 | 8:00 | 0773a |
| Subway Loop (installation) | Paul Wong | Canada | 1974 | 11:00 | 1079 |
| Vancouver Co-op Radio C.R.T.C. Application | Palladin Portapacks | Canada | 1973 | 20:00 | 0182 |
| Venus Envy: The House of Venus Story | Michael Venus | Canada | 2022 | 1:19:00 | 7207 |
| A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose | Barry Doupé | Canada | 2003 | 15:43 | 6090 |
| Digit Compilation | Elizabeth Vander Zaag | Canada | 1979 | 19:30 | 5026 |