SUSTAINABLE RESILIENCE IN WOMEN'S FILM AND VIDEO ORGANISATIONS

Delphine Seyrig & Ioana Wieder, 1976 ©Micha Dell-Prane / Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir

Sustainable Resilience in Women’s Film and Video Organizations: A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History is an academic research project mainly funded through a Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight grant as well as internal grants received by Concordia University. Its main objective is to make women’s film and video organizations an integral part of moving image history and discourse and underscore their roles in feminist, leftist and countercultural movements and media practices emerged since the 1970s.

The results of the research activities include the publication of Sustainable Resilience in Women’s Film and Video Organizations A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History (Routledge 2023) and academic journal issues and articles as well as presentations at academic conferences and dedicated institutions, including some of the organizations examined in the book, such as GIV and CASdB.

Sustainable Resilience in Women’s Film and Video Organizations A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History emphasizes how these organizations adopted best practices in feminist media such as collective and anti-hierarchical adoption of structures and infrastructures, inclusive and accessible use of technology, and collaborative and socially aimed approach to film and video.

This website is conceived as a companion to the book: it summarizes the main resources and materials that can be found in it and is a research tool through which users may access a vast database about the research project associated with the book. It is a tool to foster visibility about an area of feminist and LGBTQ history and culture that is partially known both in academic and non-academic circles.

We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this research project in any way, particularly the members, affiliated partners and participants of the organizations; the team of research assistants; the students, colleagues, research facilitators and administrators at Concordia University; the editors and publishing team at Routledge; the many women (professors, colleagues, and friends) who have inspired this project; and finally, the funding institutions and grants who have made it possible: Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Concordia University.