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Dub poets : Clifton Joseph

Item is a video of performance recorded by Centre for Art Tapes of Clifton Joseph member of the group Dub Poets, backed by members of Halifax thriving reggae and rasta community.

Joseph, Clifton

Drug warriors

Item consists of a video recording by Connie Littlefield entitled "Drug Warriors". The video is a trailer for a proposed documentary which was eventually funded by the National Film Board, and the trailer was created on a CFAT scholarship.

Littlefield, Connie

Documentaries produced at the Centre

Item consists of a video recording of various documentaries produced at the Centre for Art Tapes. The recording features: "M.D.M" (36 min., 47 sec.), "Architecture in Motion" (20 min., 8 sec.), "Drug Warriors Research Footage" (6 min., 45 sec.), "My Mother’s House" (21 min., 52 sec.), and "Miss Canadiana comes to Halifax" (16 min., 27 sec.).

Koehler, Marie

Discovering Spryfield

Item consists of a video recording entitled "Discovering Spryfield". The tape features: "Governor’s Brook - Back on the Map", "No Boundaries", "Spryfield Spirit" and "Guardian Ancestors".

Dinner

Item is a video work created by Dean Brousseau in 1984. Dinner is an experimental documentary using a universal family event as its focus.Framed in snap-shot style, the video seems to arbitrarily “crop off” the participants, saving anonymity. This tape allows the viewer to concentrate on details of inpromptu etiquette and casual conversation around the dinner table, until, in the end, as with any family event, the camera is brought out to take pictures. On the cue “okay, smile!” the photographs taken are tossed one by one into the video frame, revealing at last the dinner participants in fuzzy Polaroids.

Brousseau, Dean

Debert bunker : by invitation only / Liz MacDougall

Item is a 30-minute video produced and directed by Liz MacDougall while she was a member at the Centre for Art Tapes and a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

In this video documentary, set outside a military base in Debert, Nova Scotia on 29 February 1984, five women's Peace groups converge to call attention to an Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) test drill coordinated with multiple NATO bunkers simulating a nuclear attack on North America. For this drill, selected officials (329 men and only 11 women) were invited into Debert’s underground bunker.

At its core, NATO’s goal during a nuclear attack was to maintain continuity of Government with no provision for the protection of the population they govern. Outside the bunker, members of five non-violent feminist activist groups point out, through street theatre, rituals, waving signs and shouting, the deadly irony of this NATO strategy to rehearse for nuclear war.

Inter-cut with scenes of the day-long protest are interviews with representatives from each group comically punctuated with news footage, photographs, live radio, and film clips explaining nuclear defense strategy. Throughout this day of action women debunk the NATO strategy which would have us believe we can survive nuclear war and ultimately demand an end to the nuclear threat and to militarism.

The documentary features interviews with John Bouris, Ginny Green, Kate McKenna, Donna Smyth, Deborah Westerberg, and CBC’s Peter Gzowski interviewing Dr. Mutandis (played by Pat Kipping) live on location at Debert.

Documentary video was originally produced on U-matic 3/4 inch tape. MacDougall digitally remastered the video in 2014.

Debert bunker : by invitation only : [digital video] / Liz MacDougall

Debert bunker : by invitation only : [digital video] / Liz MacDougall

Item is a 30-minute video produced and directed by Liz MacDougall while she was a member at the Centre for Art Tapes and a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

In this video documentary, set outside a military base in Debert, Nova Scotia on 29 February 1984, five women's Peace groups converge to call attention to an Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) test drill coordinated with multiple NATO bunkers simulating a nuclear attack on North America. For this drill, selected officials (329 men and only 11 women) were invited into Debert’s underground bunker.

At its core, NATO’s goal during a nuclear attack was to maintain continuity of Government with no provision for the protection of the population they govern. Outside the bunker, members of five non-violent feminist activist groups point out, through street theatre, rituals, waving signs and shouting, the deadly irony of this NATO strategy to rehearse for nuclear war.

Inter-cut with scenes of the day-long protest are interviews with representatives from each group comically punctuated with news footage, photographs, live radio, and film clips explaining nuclear defense strategy. Throughout this day of action women debunk the NATO strategy which would have us believe we can survive nuclear war and ultimately demand an end to the nuclear threat and to militarism.

The documentary features interviews with John Bouris, Ginny Green, Kate McKenna, Donna Smyth, Deborah Westerberg, and CBC’s Peter Gzowski interviewing Dr. Mutandis (played by Pat Kipping) live on location at Debert.

Documentary video was originally produced on U-matic 3/4 inch tape. MacDougall digitally remastered the video in 2014.

De pecheur a pecheur

Item consists of two video recordings, one in english "Fisherman to fisherman" and the other in french "De pecheur a pecheur". The video was descirbed by CFAT as: "Until 1976, with the overthrow of the Sandinista regime, the Nicaraguan government paid little attention to their in-shore fisheries. Now fishermen face the challenge of improving their methods and distribution structure. Through creative sharing of knowledge and equipment, Atlantic Canadian fishermen and OXFAM are helping Nicaraguan fishermen improve their industry. Fisherman to Fisherman is a touching and thorough document of the active professional and cultural exchange between two fishermen of these two nations."

Flanagan, Kathleen

Course binder title page

Item is the title page for the course binder, "Women and the Documentary Tradition," taught by Sylvia Hamilton at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Cooking in Italy

Item consists of video recordings of Tonia Di Rissio's "Cooking in Italy". The tapes features 13 different episodes.

Di Risio, Tonia

Coming out strong

Item is a video work created by Dawna Proudman, Rozanne LePine, Tradewinds Film Co-op (Ottawa) in 1982. The Centre for Art Tapes screened the work as part of International Women's Week programming in 1982. The video documents the production of a play which is a socially conscious study of black immigrant women working in domestic situations. The director and producer teach these non-actors how to emote, react, etc. There are also brief clips of the actual play.

Proudman, Dawna

Class two

Item is a title page related to class two of course, "Through Her Eyes: Women and Documentary Filmmaking," taught by Sylvia Hamilton at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Item reads, "Margaret Perry: Background Reading and Film Information."

Class three

Item is a title page related to class three of course, "Through Her Eyes: Women and Documentary Filmmaking," taught by Sylvia Hamilton at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Item reads, "Beryl Fox: Background Reading and Film Information."

Class four

Item is a printed Novanet record related to class four of the course, "Through Her Eyes: Women and Documentary Filmmaking," taught by Sylvia Hamilton at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Class eleven

Item is a schedule related to class eleven of the course, "Women and the Documentary Tradition," taught by Sylvia Hamilton at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Canada for Canadians

Item consists of a video recording which was constructed to combat Conservative government propaganda. The video pictures Canada as a strong and proud nation that features interviews with prominent Canadians who state their reservations with the Free Trade Policy, which the Mulroney government has attempted to denigrate all opposition to the policy with the United States.

Canadian Film Centre Productions

Cabaret up front

Item is a video work created in 1984 of a night performance at Dartmouth’s Treasure Cove Lounge. Camera by Liz MacDougall, sound David Barteaux and editing by Dan Lander. Documented with a single shot, not always the most ideal conditions, and roughlyedited, the overall look of the event is nonetheless quite good.

MacDougall, Liz

Cabaret up front

Item is a video work created in 1984 of a night performance at Dartmouth’s Treasure Cove Lounge. Camera by Liz MacDougall, sound David Barteaux and editing by Dan Lander. Documented with a single shot, not always the most ideal conditions, and roughly edited, the overall look of the event is nonetheless quite good.

Lander, Dan

Breaking the cycle

Item consists of a video recording by Sobaz Benajmin entitled "Breaking the Cycle". North Preston boasts some of the most gifted singers in Atlantic Canada, if not in Canada. Yet few have been able to capture the international limelight. In this short documentary, it showcases some of the performers from North Preston, the oldest indigenous black community in Canada, who are working to break this cycle. This project was an outreach project organized by Moving Images Group in collaboration with CFAT. The aim was to bring video production to a community. The project was written, shot and directed collectively.

Benjamin, Sobaz

Braindamadj’d: Take II

Item consists of a video recording entitled "Braindamadj’d: Take II". The description accompanying the video states: "Paul Nadler, a creative force in the Montreal television industry, suffers a brain injury and is found naked, on the verge of death, on a roadside in Egypt. This film traces the excruciating process of Nadler’s recovery."

Black women : we're still standing

Item consists of a collaborative video project produced by black Haligonian women for the Halifax-Jamaica Exchange Program. Through archival photographs, film footage and newspaper clippings the history of the black population of Nova Scotia is recounted. Contemporary poverty and discrimination are shown to have a long history beginning with slavery and broken promises.

Jamaica Women's Exchange Project

Beyond pyramids

Item consists of a video recording by Aube Giroux entitled "Beyond Pyramids". The video is a documentary film that investigates the environmental and cultural impacts Egypt's tourism industry.

Giroux, Aube

Artist presentation

Item consists of a video recording by Natalie Bookchin entitled "Artist Presentation". The video is a documentation of artist’s presentation on her work utilizing the internet.

Bookchin, Natalie

6015 willow

Item consists of the film "6015 Willow" directed by Mark Mullane. The film is a story about community, a house, and a very long weekend, and is a musical documentary show in Halifax in 2007. A Snapshot of the city’s indie music scene. Director of Photography: Greg Boone; Edit: Evan Elliot, Paul Hammond; Produced: Paul, Hammond, Jeffrey Parker; Directed by Mark Mullane.

Mullane, Mark

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