This is the Feminist Archive: Maternity Vexed

Welcome back to our Winter 2026 season! Our screening series highlights groundbreaking Canadian feminist film and video from the 70s-90s.

Maternity Vexed: Dialogues with Her

Everyone has a mother. You probably had one yourself. The films in this program each represent a dialogue between the generations – from mother to daughter, and back again. Both tender and fractious, these accounts of the mother/daughter relationship, or of matriarchal legacies, define matresence on its own symbiotic terms. Featuring work by Helen Lee, Amy Gottleib, Diane Bonder, and more. Curated by Lexie Corbett.

ABOUT THE SERIES:

This is the Feminist Archive: Feminist Film and Video 1970s-1990s

The events in the series, screenings accompanied by conversations with the artists, recontextualize feminist film and video work as constitutive of archival futures; a future imperfect: what will be seen to have been. The films and videos in the programs come from the last three decades of the 20th century when feminist political organizing was inextricable with women’s cultural production. This screening series emerges from the SSHRC-funded project “The Personal is Digital: Remediating and Digitizing Canada’s Intergenerational Feminist & Queer Media Heritage." The 2026 iteration of the series is directed and curated by Drs. Marusya Bociurkiw with administration and additional curation by Lexie Corbett.

Special thanks to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Vtape, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Video Out/VIVO Media Arts Centre.

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