VCR

(VISUAL COLLECTIONS REPOSITORY)

Our services and collections

Our services and collections aim to respond to the expanding range of artistic practice, research-creation and digital humanities research by managing pivots between analogue pasts and digital futures.

VCR houses state-of-the-art viewing facilities for digital and analogue media and maintains and facilitates access to four distinct collections:

Moving Image Teaching Collection
Celluloid Film Collection
Still Image Collection
Faculty and Student Work Collection.

All research activities are by appointment only.

Call for Applications: VCR Residency Program

Each year, VCR supports Concordia University alumni as curators-in-residence to curate films and images created by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) filmmakers.

Apply for Film Curator-in-Residence Apply for Image Curator-in-Residence

Resources at VCR

Digital Images & Slides

Moving Image Collection

Canadian Women Artists History Initiative (CWAHI)

Facilities at VCR

Meet the 2023 VCR curators-in-residence

VCR is pleased to host two Curators-in-Residence for 2023: Juan Ospina and Santiago Tavera.

For this program, the residents will curate a collection of films and images created by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) filmmakers and artists.

Learn more about VCR residencies

Juan Ospina

(BFA Film Studies, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University)

Juan Ospina is a Colombian-born writer and filmmaker who recently graduated with a BFA in Film Studies from Concordia University. Since his arrival in Montreal, Juan has focused his interests on films and representation of immigrants and diasporic communities; their journeys and their memories. His recent written work in the independent collective Short Ends and his filmography mirror his interests as well as his personal experience.

Santiago Tavera

(MFA Studio Arts: Intermedia, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University)

Santiago Tavera is a Colombian-Canadian artist, researcher and curator based in Montréal. Tavera’s practice revolves around constructing immersive and interactive projects that expand the body and perception through digital media, to evoke virtual simulations of migrant and queer narratives of dislocation. In Tavera’s work, mixed media compositions of videos, 3D graphic animations, text, sound, archival material and architectural elements create blurred experiences of physical and virtual spatial embodiments of the “other”. Tavera’s projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Le Conseil des art de Montréal and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, and presented in Canada and internationally, Tavera holds a Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia from Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Arts with an Honor Specialization in Visual Arts and a Major in Psychology from Western University. www.santiagotavera.com

Faculty of Fine Arts