Counter-Archive Cinema
February 1 – 28, 2026
2nd – 3rd Floors & Main Office Projector
School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
For the month of February, we're screening short films by SCA students Cory Ip, Sherine Chan, Theo Badzio, and Aidan Edwards, produced as part of "CA 334: FILM FORMS: Counter-Cinema – Archive Filmmaking as Resistance" (led by the SCA's Chris Chong Chan Fui in the Fall Term of 2025), on our building's monitors (across from the elevators on floors 2 – 4) and the projection by the SCA's Main Office, each with their own film. Make sure to see them all!
- Main Office projection (2nd floor): Cory Ip
- 2th floor monitor: Sherine Chan
- 3rd floor monitor: Theo Badzio
- 4nd floor monitor: Aidan Edwards
Course Description
How would you re-tell our histories?
Every sight and sound is imbued with a memory. In one form or another, these memories become captured/recorded whether by those who created those memories or by those who merely observed. Housed formally in library archives, private collections, or informally in a family home, these memories become audio and visual (AV) artefacts of a time and space. Our question as artists then becomes “who controls these memories?” and “what could these memories mean to us today?” As interrogators, you will respectfully appropriate and creatively express a critique of our existing histories.
This course looks to unsettle and disrupt the underrepresented images and sounds trapped in its colonial past and release it into a re-imagined future. Counter imaginings of our histories is one of the most important contemporary arts practices for artists in all disciplines today as a form of decolonization and decentralization. Reframing existing materials from institutional, informal, and personal archives, will be the foundation of the films you will make in this course.