Item consists of three video works created by John Orentlicher and Tom Sherman created between 1978 and 1979. The video works are a series titled The black and white tapes and include : 2 + 1 +1, Because it's my image - Watching the leatherman, and She and she. Videos were screened by Centre for Art Tapes in 1980. The Centre for Art Tapes described the videos as the following: 2 + 1 + 1: a nude woman lies on a bed, stroking a dog that lies beside her. Voiceover is a description of sexual imagery repeated several times, first by a man, then a woman, then together. Because it's My Image - Watching the Leatherman: a black man gets dressed up in his leather gear, S &M Style. We hear him describing his garments, but the main audio is a voice that talks about television, voyeurism. She and She: a woman strips, gets into some kind of odd metal breastplate and codpiece, she skips the metal pieces. During this segment, a female voice talks about sharing space, the audience trusting the character and vice versa.
Item is a video work created by Edward Slopek in 1978, titled Black Box on Being: Excerpts from Chapter 11 of the Confessions of St. Augustine. Video was screened at Centre for Art Tapes in 1979. Audio is reading of text by St. Augustine’s philosophy and the visual is of nails being pounded.
Item consists of four video works in the series On air, created by Susan Britton : Love Hurts (10 min., 1977); ...and a woman (6 min., 1978); Don’t get cute (8 min., 1978); Tango (7 min., 1976). Centre for Art Tapes exhibition of her photographs and videos in 1978.
Item is a video work about the labour struggle of South Shore fishermen and fish plant workers in Nova Scotia. The work is produced by Tom Burger and Bill McKiggan and screened at Centre for Art Tapes. Video was published by Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative.
Item is a Betacam SP videocassette created by Theodore Wan as part of installation at the Victoria General Hospital called Sculpture: Calling attention to a space. It was edited from Operating room scrub by Dalhousie University surgery department.
Item is a video created by Dean Johnstone as part of a Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Project. Lighting by David Wigmore and Effects: B. McCarvell Performers include: Buell, Cole, Cousins, Genge, Johnstone, McCarvell, McInnis, Mclean, Parslow, Picard, Pidgeon, Semple, Steward, Wigmore.
Item consists of two video works created by Mike Riggio (director), John Doyle (camera), and Paul Wadden (writer and performer). Video includes two selections of prose readings : Far greater love on a far greater bay and One of the boys. Video is from Memorial University Art Tapes. Far Great Love is a video of man drinking with English accent reminiscing of a great love. One of the Boys is about a man with heavy Newfoundland accent telling story.
Item is a videocassette created by Virginia Shaw in 1980. Tape includes footage of Shaw interviewing people in Auckland, New Zealand about Māori land, Bastion Point, and the 1975 Māori land march. Tape also includes footage of an interview with loggers at a camp near Kawerau, Paremoremo Prison, and an unidentified hair salon.
Item consists of video works created by various artists between 1980 and 1986. Videos include: Embodiments of the mind 2 by Edward Slopek (3 min., 11 sec.); Wall to Wall by Eric Cameron (11 min.); Cheyene a romance by Liz MacDougall and Andy Dowden (3 min., 55 sec.); A car the road and a camera, by Daniel Lander (2 min., 6 sec.); Beautiful Beasts by Kathy Tanney (5 min., 6 sec.).
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.
Item consists of seven video works by Jeremy Welsh : B (12 min.); Still dancing (5 min., 30 sec.); Insomnia (14 min., 30 sec.); The drummer (5 min.); These days everyobody is a conceptualist (9 min., 30 sec.); that elusive quality of romance (part two) extract from 30 min. ambient video installation; In re Don Giovanni (with Michael Nyman).
Item is a video of shots collected by David Short. In the case two pages list the name of the shot list and dates on CTV News stationary. Shots include : Ladies choice, Burger King commercial, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo and more shots.
Item is a video of shots collected by David Short. In the case one page list the name of the shot list and dates on CFCF-TV12 editor's shot list. Shots include : defense spending, GMA Nicaragua, heavy fighting and more shots.
Item is a video of shots collected by David Short. In the case 2 pages list the name of the shot list and dates on CFCF-TV12 film editor's shot list. Shots include,experimental kitchen, sexism story- France, El Salvador American aid and more shots.
Item is a video work created by Carolyn Lounder, Micah Lexier, David MacDonald, and Liz MacDougall in 1983. According to a conversation with Liz MacDougall on February 11th, 2007, this tape was a Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) Summer Project.
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.
Item is a compilation of video works created with assistance from the Centre for Art Tapes : CFAT Promo; Gwen Noah performance; Art-Kik Power; Crossing the 49th; Self-Hypnosis; Debert Bunker: By Invitation Only; Look Up (the Sky is Falling); Survival: Still the Issue; Catie; Our Two Cents Worth; We Will Rebuild; C.D. Latter's Natural High; Who Says?; In Trouble With the Law; Warships. Description of the video prepared by Centre for Art Tapes is as follows: CFAT Promo: ad that was played every other year on Halloween. Catie: In this video the audience experiences a one-on-one encounter with another human being, seemingly without intervention of medium used. The person in question is an Acadian woman in her mid-70’s, whom the viewer meets at home. Catie relates numerous aspects of her life in an unabashed manner, revealing her as someone who has survived hard times with grace and dignity. Brousseau explains at the beginning how this video is one of a pair (the other being ‘Mother’s Days’) which explore the shifts in moral outlook from generation to generation. By dealing with his relatives, Brousseau and camera are able to capture a particularly candid and entrusting view of the subjects, giving insight into personal aspects of their lives, at the same time showing some of their more universally shared qualities. Crossing the 49th: “It has been arranged by the intermales and underdykes of the U.S.A. and Canada, to unite in the union of the World’s first totally gay nation. Come on now, cross the 49th.” Crossing the 49th is a narrative fantasy dealing with the notion that the total population of Canada could be swapped with the entire American gay population. The tape uses several methods to address this fantasy: blue American and red Canadian lips share ideas; keyed text in the guise of airport codes and clauses float across the screen; sections of slow-moving, bleached-out shots help create a dreamy effect that runs the entire length of the tape. Debert Bunker: By Invitation Only: The occasion of this tape was a military coordinated rehearsal of emergency measure in the event of a nuclear war. This dry-run, which had officials (mostly men) seeking shelter from fall-out that the underground bunker at Debert, NS might provide, became the focus of non-violent collective activism from several maritime-based affinity groups (mostly women). The narrative alternates action footage with commentary from group representatives. The intention was that of describing and documenting the processes and symbolic gestures employed by each group. Women from the action had not previously used video made important contributions to production. The tape uses interviews inter cut with live dramatic performance, live ritual, live footage. as well as stills and medical clips. Voice-over and live sound are both used.
Item consists of five video works : Debert Debunkers: By Invitation Only, 1984-85 by Liz MacDougall (2min., 10sec.); John Turner Goes to Hollywood, April 27th, 1985, by Doug Barron (4 min., 8 sec.); Monoltage, by Mark Clifford (6 min.,18 sec.); Vernacular Designs, Laura MacDonald and Paula Fairfield, (3 min., 20 sec.); Performance from the Arts and Culture Assembly, January 27th, 1985, Cathy Quinn (3 min., 31 sec.).
Item consists of a video recording showing a group of women using video equipment. The women go to the Public Gardens, where an interview with a man takes place.
Items consist of a video recording by Melodie Calvert, Caroline Murray-Crick and Nancy David. This video work was a part of the 1986 video exhibition, "Life Like It", which featured Halifax-based video artists and traveled nationally. "Survival: Still the Issue" deals with the subject of women's survival in the Halifax region because of the high price and scarcity of shelter, health and employment.
Item consists of audio recordings by Andy James, which were played at the 1986 Audio by Artist Festival and produced by Andy Dowden. The festival was dedicated to Andy James, who passed away in January 1986 and contributed to the festival in the past. Material was aired on CKDU.
Item consists of a compilation tape titled "California Connections" that has video recordings by Wendy Geller, Suzie Silver and Paul Best. "Gays for Better Bodies" challenges the sexual stereotyping of straight and gay men by conflating their domains in this advertisement for a gymnasium for gay men. "Gay Tabs Straight Tabs" uses a corporate advertising format to destabilize heterosexuality among men.
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.
Item consists of video recordings by Halifax-Lublin Exchange Videotapes: Popular Projects, Girls Just Want to Have Funds by Cathy Busby and Melodie Calvert, Sirensong by Jan Peacock, Fascynacja by Doug Porter, Nothing Personal by Melodie Calvert and Obey Your Heart by Dean Brousseau.
Items consist of video recordings by Jim MacSwain's "Amoeba Culture" (3:30), Bryan Maycock's "W.I.P." (1:30), Felicity Redgrave's "In Search of the Sacred" (3:10), Andrew Terris' "Glasswork: Video Segment" (1:40), Ricardo Scipio's "Untitled" (9:10), and Ken Mayfield's "Next Song of Day" (1 min.).
