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. #
   Degeneration Laurence Chan United Kingdom 2014 1:00 5438
   Les Barricades Mysterieuses Stuart Pound United Kingdom 2009 2:36 4069
   Tell The Dogs Lindsay Lorraine Canada 2019 3:16 7131
   Second Sun Leslie Supnet Canada 2013 3:10 5411
   Trópico Desvaído Valentina Alvarado Spain 2015 6:10 4629
   Subway Loop (installation) Paul Wong Canada 1974 11:00 1079
   Scissors Cindy Mochizuki Canada 2016 19:38 7007
   At the Heart of a Sparrow Barry Doupé Canada 2005 29:00 6092
   Line In The Sand Tomas Borsa (et-al) Canada 2014 80:00 5404
   Desire Control Elizabeth Chitty Canada 1980 12:00 1297
   Olympic Village 1 Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte Canada 2011 15:51 5383c
   Tribute to Video Inners or a New Way of Working Collectively Shawn Preus Canada 1978 7:49 7003
   Video Notebook: What is Violence? Aaron Pollard Canada 1991 23:00 1898
   Waterside (The Crossing) Russell Wallace Canada 2013 2:38 5381
   I'm Crazy Blair Bogin United States 2015 1:00 4594
   Sunken Cave and a Migrating Bird Qiuli Wu China 2019 10:31 7101
   This is DVD The Single Dads Canada 2017 1:02 6079
   Peep Show Eric Metcalfe (et-al) Canada 1985 10:00 1405
   The Snows Russell Wallace Canada 2013 5:21 5378
   Signed- K.K. Ken Kuramoto Canada 1978 15:00 887