Projects

Sara Gómez Project

The Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez made 19 documentaries and a feature film in Cuba before her very untimely death at 34 in 1974. The VML is the global distributor for her films outside of North America. The Criterion Collection purchased the restorations from the VML and has the distribution rights for the films in North America, with a release on their streaming platform in early 2025. A boxed collection of the work on DVD is a forthcoming Criterion release. The films were digitized, restored, and subtitled at the Vulnerable Media Lab.

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Kingston Film Heritage Project

The Kingston Film Heritage Project is an initiative to preserve and digitize the history of Kingston on film. With support from the Kingston Heritage Fund and the City of Kingston, the Vulnerable Media Lab has been able to research and restore elements of Kingston’s film history.

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Futures of Digital Media Art Histories

The Future of Digital Media Histories (FDHM) is propelled by an urgent and daunting cultural heritage crisis: the rapid loss of digital art and media from the past 40 years to changing technology. This loss has a devastating effect on our capacity to know and experience our heritage. Across Canada, the first decades of digital art and media production saw a flourishing of projects by artists and activists from diverse communities: Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, diasporic.

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Arnait

Through the films and video work of the Arnait Video Productions, Inuuqatikka - my dear relations brings focus to the kin-centered outlook of Inuit women in the Arctic. Inspired by the spaces in which women gather, the “white cube” gallery space has been re-envisioned as the interior of a white canvas tupik (tent), with uyarait (rocks) lining the perimeter to keep the wind and cold out and the qulliq (oil lamp) lit to keep families warm.

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