This is the Feminist Archive: Women Fight the Power!

Name: This is the Feminist Archive: Women Fight the Power!
Start: 2026-01-29T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-29T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 401 Richmond St W

Schedule

Thu Jan 29 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

401 Richmond St W | Toronto, ON

A history of protest and resistance in Toronto and beyond
About this Event

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

Women Fight the Power: Protest in Toronto and Beyond

These films fight the power of the factory boss, the welfare authorities, the museum, and the government itself. While only some of the struggles addressed in the films primarily concern women, the fierce female eyes behind the camera lead to particular aesthetic choices, topical concerns and juxtapositions that reveal the intersectionality of feminism at the time. From Joyce Wieland’s gentle yet sharply political rumination on women’s work to Alanis Obomsawin’s immersive, empathetic verité sensibility, these films and videos are generously nuanced, allowing for contradiction and complexity. They refuse simple solutions while also opening up off-screen spaces of possibility.

Date: Thursday January 29th, 2026

Location: The Commons @ 401 Richmond Street W, 4th flr

Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm

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.