Diane Poitras

A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the innovations that made this mammoth project one of the most impressive engineering feats in Canadian history.

“The videos in this program specifically articulate intervention as tactics of creative expression and protest, bringing forward a shared sense of challenges of doing feminist work in the public register, and they take up the risk and labour of feminist embodiment. In all selected works, desire lines remap space to the rhythm of other wants and needs; they are invitations to step out of official lines and to walk in the company of other absentee presences.” -Archive/Counter Archive Educational Guide, page 9.

Black and white images shot at night. A camera roams the streets of Montreal in search of sounds, smells and sensations. From the first frame, NIGHTS stakes its ground as a poetic, nomadic experience, an open-ended essay about the countless inner worlds that inhabit the big-city night. Testimonials and confessions gradually emerge, from a photographer to a truck driver, from a baker to a blind woman who had to learn to “see” the world differently. Their experiences overlap, but are unalike. We have the feeling of living different lives, against the grain of normality, and we are not alone in this. Diane Poitras achieves nothing less than the reconstitution of a parallel community.

Gabrielle's universe, one of Canada's most important French-language writers.

Marketing pitches between 1940 and 1970 lead to believe that new technologies facilitating household chores were responsible for women's emancipation in the 20th century. By reusing commercials and television archives, this retrofuturist feminist essay questions this capitalist discourse in order to examine the relationship between women and technology.

A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the innovations that made this mammoth project one of the most impressive engineering feats in Canadian history.

“The videos in this program specifically articulate intervention as tactics of creative expression and protest, bringing forward a shared sense of challenges of doing feminist work in the public register, and they take up the risk and labour of feminist embodiment. In all selected works, desire lines remap space to the rhythm of other wants and needs; they are invitations to step out of official lines and to walk in the company of other absentee presences.” -Archive/Counter Archive Educational Guide, page 9.

Black and white images shot at night. A camera roams the streets of Montreal in search of sounds, smells and sensations. From the first frame, NIGHTS stakes its ground as a poetic, nomadic experience, an open-ended essay about the countless inner worlds that inhabit the big-city night. Testimonials and confessions gradually emerge, from a photographer to a truck driver, from a baker to a blind woman who had to learn to “see” the world differently. Their experiences overlap, but are unalike. We have the feeling of living different lives, against the grain of normality, and we are not alone in this. Diane Poitras achieves nothing less than the reconstitution of a parallel community.

Gabrielle's universe, one of Canada's most important French-language writers.

Marketing pitches between 1940 and 1970 lead to believe that new technologies facilitating household chores were responsible for women's emancipation in the 20th century. By reusing commercials and television archives, this retrofuturist feminist essay questions this capitalist discourse in order to examine the relationship between women and technology.