Archives Access: Untitled performance by Deborah Hay (1977)
Join us for an online screening and discussion surrounding a performance by choreographer and performer Deborah Hay at Western Front on August 18, 1977, filmed…
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The archives are open by appointment to all researchers on Thursdays and Fridays. Please contact our archivist, Anna Tidlund, to plan your visit.
Western Front's physical archives are located at 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver.
The archives are open by appointment to all researchers on Thursdays and Fridays. Please contact our archivist, Anna Tidlund, to plan your visit.
Results filed under: Screening
POSTPONED: No Data Plan & Distancing
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Screening & Conversation with Sky Hopinka Free A voiceless narrator rehashes details about his mother’s affair as he crosses the country…
Tim’s Success Story
A partnership with Duplex artist-run centre, Western Front Media Arts is pleased to host this talk by the first Duplex artist-in-residence, Jennifer Laiwint. Laiwint will…
MONITOR 13: Dance on my head and scratch my heart
Screening: January 10, 7pm Reading & Discussion: January 14, 7pm Western Front is pleased to host SAVAC’s experimental South Asian film and video program, MONITOR.…
Deanna Bowen: ON TRIAL The Long Doorway
A Black legal aide lawyer is assigned to represent a young white student who has assaulted a fellow student/rising Black athlete. ON TRIAL The Long…
Pacific Crossings: Load Na Dito
Mark Salvatus & Mayumi Hirano
TALK May 22 @ 7pm Load Na Dito is an artistic and research project based in Manila, Philippines. Developed as a home made culture, currently located in Cubao,…
Animation Show and Tell
Join artists Howie Tsui, Lianne Zannier and artist-in-residence Yaloo for an evening of animation in the Luxe. A casual night of screening and chatting through weird and wonderful excerpts by…
Pacific Crossings
Warm Spell
Shot on the Thai island of Ko Yao Yai and set amidst the environmental change caused by global warming, Warm Spell explores the economic and…
Past is Prologue: 20 years of COSMOSQUAW
An evening with Sḵwx̱wú7mesh storyteller Salia Joseph and Cree-Metis poet Samantha Nock, who will honour, contextualize and expand on Cree/Saulteaux/Métis artist Lori Blondeau’s COSMOSQUAW (1998).…
The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy
Screening of Campbell’s 2013 film It For Others and dialogue with Jordan Wilson: May 13 @ 2pm Duncan Campbell is known for his films, which…
Electro-pythagorus
Special Location: SFU Woodward’s, Cinema 149 W Hastings St. Electro-pythagorus is a portrait of computer music pioneer and Western Front co-founder Martin Bartlett. Created largely from…
Bodies of Knowledge
Organized alongside TERMINAL, the Bodies of Knowledge screenings are a meditation on the ‘user’ side of technological relationships. This two-part series brings together three different…
Lucy Raven Screening Tales of Love and Fear
Lucy Raven’s Tales of Love and Fear is a cinema built for a single film, which contains a single image. The project comes out of…
À Vancouver
The Vancouver premiere of a new work by Toronto-base artist Vincent Chevalier. The screening will be followed by a talk by the artist. “À Vancouver…
Apparitions
Inspired by early stereo imaging, Apparitions seeks to dismantle cinematic codes while foregrounding projector and light as sculpture. For this two-projector film, MacKenzie uses colour…
As a Wife Has a Cow
Western Front is pleased to present the upcoming screening: As a Wife Has a Cow, a video portrait of the charismatic rancher Keely Moll. An intimate interrogation of the life and…
Vancouver Independent Archives Week
Western Front is pleased to participate in Vancouver Independent Archives Week with grunt gallery and VIVO Media Arts Centre Archives Week Kickoff Screening Sunday November…
Eternal
Eternal Directed by Daniel Fish Presented with the PuSh International Performing Arts FestivalFebruary 2–6 @ 8pm, February 6 @ 2pm Artist Talk: February 3, following the…