Item consists of a video recording by Rick Warden entitled "Front Page Challenged". The video is about the Mehan Hrarran case, who talks about deportation on Canadian citizens on vacation in U.S. to Syria, where he was held and tortured. Uses old footage from 1960s tv show “Front Page Challenge”
Item consists of a video recording that examines the personal relationship between two gay men from different eras in time and explores the differences and similiarities in the ways they have coped with being gay in a homophobic society.
Item consists of a video recording by Cathy Busby and Melodie Calvert which have a narrative which uses humour to provide a glimpse at the working conditions of an underpaid arts administrator.
Item consists of a video recording by Heather Anderson entitled "Granddaughter Excerpts" from 2003. The tape features "Crawl Loop" (3 min.), "Portraits" (4 min.), and "Flannel" (3 min.).
Item consists of a video recording by Kathleen Flanagan entitled "Gunning the Economy". The video offers a brief socio-economic analysis of the structure of arms production and consumption as it relates to Nova Scotia and underdeveloped nations.
Item is a video created by Barry Burley in 1979. The video looks at the problems of the people of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Video was screened at Centre for Art Tapes in 1979.
Item consists of three video works : Monoltage by Mark Clifford; Suburban stress by Mark Verbioff; and Valley vista home by Norman Cohn. Each video is preceded by artist statements.
Item consists of two video works : Relative activities by Paula Fairfield ; Doing nothing with somebody by Micah Lexier in 1984. Videos were produced through the Centre for Art Tapes. Videos part of Halifax Independent Producers series (1 of 5).
Item is a video work created by Dean Brousseau in 1984. Video was produced through the Centre for Art Tapes. Videos part of Halifax Independent Producers series (2 of 5). 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.
Item is a video work created by Doug Pope in 1984 : Indifferent city. Video was produced through the Centre for Art Tapes. Videos part of Halifax Independent Producers series (3 of 5).
Item consist of two video works created in 1984 : Tall Ships by Dan Lander; Drift by David Clark. Video was produced through the Centre for Art Tapes. Videos part of Halifax Independent Producers series (4 of 5). Tall Ships investigates the role of TV media on the way we perceive everyday occurrences. Drift is an experimental tape full of cliches.
Item consists of three video works created in 1984: Monoltage by Mark Clifford; Suburban Stress by Mark Verabioff; Red by Sara Newman and Carol Millett . These might be the first scholarship tapes according to a conversation with Liz MacDougall on February 11th, 2007. Videos part of Halifax Independent Producers series (5 of 5).
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.
Item consists of a video recording by Chris Murphy and Catherine Stockhausen entitled "Hip Club Groove ("Rugged Operator") from Murderecord Release, and "Trailer Park Hip Hop".
Item consists of a video recording by Valerie LeBlanc that is an abstract visual of a personal poetic narrative that also features images of a picket fence.
