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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.

Where have all the radicals gone? / by Tanya Mars

Where have all the radicals gone? / by Tanya Mars

Item is a poster for the public lecture by Tanya Mars as part of Eyelevel's lecture and exhibition series held on May 22, 2009, at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Bell Auditorium. Tanya Mars is a feminist performance and video artist who has been involved in the Canadian art scene since 1973.
Audio Videos at the National Film Board Theatre

Audio Videos at the National Film Board Theatre

Item is a poster for a screening of 8 videotapes from North America, held on March 18, 1986, at the National Film Board Theatre. This event was part of the Audio by Artists festival in 1986. The artists that participated in this event were: David Askevold, Francois Girard, Ihor Holubizky, Michael Klein, Christian Marclay, Ileana Montalvo, Bruce Robb and Mark Veriaboff.
Michael snow films: snow in December

Michael snow films: snow in December

Item is a poster for film series screened from November to December 1982 at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Eye Level Gallery, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Bell Auditorium.
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.

11 steps to survival

Item consists of an animation video recording about the precautions that need to be undertaken in order to survive nuclear weapon attacks. The video was produced for the Emergency Measures Organization as an educational method.

Dic, Ronald

CFAT compilation

Item consists of a compilation of video recordings which include "I'd Like To Move On If I Could Please" (5 min., 3 sec.) by Doug Porter, "Conjunction" (5 min., 50 sec.) by Kim Truchan, "Amoeba Culture" (4 min., 25 sec.) by James MacSwain (from 1989), and "Distant Voices" (7 min.) by Barbara Badessi.

Porter, Doug

New tools for imaging

Item consists of a compilation of video recordings entitled "New Tools for Imaging". The tape features: "Round Earth's Imagined Corners" (4 min., 23 sec.) by Bryan Maycock, "Amoeba Culture" (4 min., 23 sec.) by James MacSwain, "In Search of the Sacred" (10 min., 40 sec.) by Felicity Redgrave and "Deus Ex Machina" (6 min.) by Andrew Terris.

Maycock, Bryan

The nightmare

Item consists of a video recording by Steve Comeau "The Nightmare". The video is described as: "Comeau juxtaposes his original music with acquired footage of Stalin and the USSR during WWII and the immediate postwar period. "

Comeau, Steve

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

Amiga compilation tape

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.).

MacSwain, Jim

Gay generations

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.

MacSwain, Jim

CFAT compilation

Item consists of a compilation video recording tape for the Centre for Art Tapes. The tape features: "Small Craft Harbours" (11 min.) and "Experimental Silver Hake Fishery" (8 min.) by David Askevold and "Fourty Years of Service" (26 min.) by Kevin Walker.

Askevold, David

CFAT compilation

Item consists of a compilation video recording tape for the Centre for Art Tapes. The tape features: "Born Natural" (10min.) by Ann Verrall, "Time to Heal" (27 min.) by Liz MacDougall, "Lorsque Cesse le Vacarme" (7 min.) by Dian Poitras, and "Time Has No Image" (8 min., 24 sec.) by Doug Porter.

Verrall, Ann

CFAT compilation

Item consists of a compilation video recording tape for the Centre for Art Tapes. The tape features: "My Mother's Movie" (12 min., 30 sec.) by Thom Fitzgerald, "Face to Face" (4 min., 30 sec.) by Lori Meserve, "I Don't Remember You Holding Me" (4 min., 23 sec.) by Julia MacLean., "Go Pitch, Go Patch, Go Pepper" (14 min., 41 sec.) by Rosemary MacAulay, "Just Exposure" (5 min., 17 sec.) by Kim Smith, and "Home for the Homeless" (12 min., 33 sec.) by Solid Women Acting Out.

Fitzgerald, Thom

Small craft harbours

Item consists of two video recordings by David Askevold, "Small Craft Harbours: Scotia Fundy Region" (11 min.), and "Experimental Silver Hake Fishery" (8 min., 30 sec.)/

Askevold, David

Centre for Art Tapes compilation

Item is a video compilation of Centre for Art Tapes produced videos. Videos include: Sing it the Best That You Can (4 min., 38 sec.) created by Bruce Campbell and Garry Conway; Invasion of Our Homeland (1 min., 40 sec.) created by Liz MacDougall and INNU Project; D.A.N.S. promo (30 sec.) created by Dean Brousseau; Quarter Moon (4 min., 10 sec.) created by David Askevol;, The Absence of Us (2 min., 55 sec.) created by Pamela Pike and The Halifax Conference: A Forum on National Policy (12 min., 27 sec.).

MacDougall, Liz

Centre for Art Tapes compilation

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.

Calvert, Melodie, 1961-

Video workshop

Item is a video work created by Alan Fox in 1984 at the Centre for Art Tapes. It is Part 2 of a video workshop showing many aspects of the studio.

Murderecords : compilation

Item consists of video recordings by Murderecords. The tape features: The Super Friends "10 lbs" (3 min., 40 sec.) directed by Laura Borealis, Jake "Double Edge" (2 min., 47 sec.) directed by Laura Stein, Al Tuck & No Actiob "Buddha" (5 min., 10 sec.) directed by Peter Holt, Hip Club Groove "Shootin' da Gift" (4 min., 10 sec.) directed by Mike Clattenburg and "Rugged Operator" (3 min., 23 sec.) directed by Catherine Stockhausen, and Thrush Hermit "French Inhale" (3 min., 9 sec.) directed by Laura Borealis.

Stein, Laura

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