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. #
   Sin∞Fin-Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass VestAndPage Argentina 2011 45:42 5385
   Outeretina Daniel Wechsler Israel 2014 4:05 4578
   South East False Creek Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte Canada 2011 21:11 5383a
   Video Notebook: What is Violence? Aaron Pollard Canada 1991 23:00 1898
   One Hundred Years Of Aggression Kim Tomczak Canada 1978 19:00 0989a
   ComposingYou_Chinatown Judy Jheung Canada 2017 7:44 6065
   Upstream Russell Wallace Canada 2013 2:23 5380
   Eye Witness Lynn Hershman United States 1985 2:08 1562c
   Trópico Desvaído Valentina Alvarado Spain 2015 6:10 4629
   So Much I Want To Say Mona Hatoum (et-al) Canada 1982 5:00 1655
   Thundering Scream Of The Seraphim's Delight Reynold Weidenaar United States 1986 14:30 1516
   The Splits Allison Hrabluik Canada 2014 15:00 4609
   Journey Ruby Truly Canada 1984 7:30 1484
   mom and her music Rajee Paña Jeji Shergill Canada 2015 14:56 7020
   Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things Mark Kenneth Woods (et-al) Canada 2015 71:00 4592
   Peep Show Eric Metcalfe (et-al) Canada 1985 10:00 1405
   Gutter Paul Wong (et-al) Canada 1975 8:00 0773a
   Miami Vice – Air Deluxe Leonid Kalyadin Russia 2013 2:30 5429
   Whaty Barry Doupé Canada 2011 00:30 6096
   Sunken Cave and a Migrating Bird Qiuli Wu China 2019 10:31 7101