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Links and Resources

https://www.imaa.ca/
Advocacy for media artists

http://www.nationalimac.org/
Indigenous arm of IMAA

https://www.carfac.ca/
Advocacy for artists

https://mano-ramo.ca/
Advocacy for Ontario media arts

https://www.framediscreet.com/
Film scanning with other resources about analogue film and gear on website

http://niagaracustomlab.com/
Film processing and scanning

https://lift.ca/
Artist-run centre for independent filmmakers (Toronto)

https://www.bso-ben.ca/
Organization supporting Black screen content

https://www.bipoctvandfilm.com/
Organization and collective supporting BIPOC in TV & film industries

https://imaginenative.org/
Indigenous film festival & presenter with workshops and other programs

https://www.nfb.ca/
Canadian film institution with production, distribution, education, and archive branches

https://charlesstreetvideo.com/home
Equipment rentals and workshops (Toronto)

https://interaccess.org/
Gallery, workshops, and production studio for new media (Toronto)

https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/
Artist-run centre for video artists (Toronto)

https://www.pixfilm.ca/
Gallery, event space, and studio (Toronto)

https://tais.ca/
Artist-run animation production centre (Toronto)


 

More information on CFMDC, artist-run organizations and media arts

 

Balson, Erika. After Uniqueness A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017) 

 

Fothergill, Robert. “Canadian Film-Maker’s Distribution Centre: A Founding Memoir,” Canadian Journal of Film vol. 3, no. 2 (1994): 81-85

 

Knowles, Kim. Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices (Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) 

 

Lampert, Andrew. Results You Can’t Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics (New York City: Anthology Film Archives, 2006) 

 

Lucky, Shannon J. “ARChives: Exploring the Community Archives of Canadian Artist-run Centres.” Master’s Thesis, University of Alberta, 2016. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/0727c990-2057-4b16-9b38-a678ba09eaa4 

 

Lucky, Shannon J. “Digital ARChiving in Canadian Artist-Run Centres.” In Participatory Heritage, edited by H. Roued-Cunliffe and A. Copeland (London: Facet Publishing, 2017), 163-172. 

 

Mihailescu, Ilinka “No Judgement: A History of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre”, Local Film Cultures: Toronto. https://localfilmculturestoronto.wordpress.com/no-judgement-a-history-of-the-canadian-filmmakers-distribution-centre/ 

 

Noordegraaf, Julia, Cosetta G. Saba, Barbara Le Maître, and Vinzenz Hediger (eds.), Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art Challenges and Perspectives (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013)

 

Plant, Johanna. “Constituting the Archives of Artist-Run Culture: A Self-Conscious Apparatus of History.” Master’s Thesis, Queen’s University, 2015. https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/13512?show=full 

 

Roberston, Clive. “Movement + apparatus: a cultural policy study of artist-run culture in Canada (1976-1994).” PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2004. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/8199/ 

 

Takahashi, Tess, “Queer Film At The Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre (1965-1985)” Other Places. https://www.otherplaces.mano-ramo.ca/tess-takahashi-queer-film-at-the-canadian-filmmakers-distribution-centre-1965-1985/ 

 

“Toronto Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989”, Art Gallery of Ontario. (Sept. 2016-May 2017) https://ago.ca/exhibitions/toronto-tributes-tributaries-1971-1989 

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