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Unfit for Paradise
File · ca. 1950-1971
Part of Margaret Dragu fonds

File contains a number of personal records pertaining to the creator such as childhood vaccination records; birth weight/health information; high school report cards; high school transcript (class of 1971, transcripts requested 1991); and “Same Day Video Edit” — print outs on old computer paper.

Tom Dean
File · 1974-1983
Part of Margaret Dragu fonds

File consists of materials related to a collaboration between Dragu and Tom Dean. There are photographs, correspondence, copies of reviews, and other records related to performances such as “Fear of Blue,” “Her Majesty,” and “Peripheries.”

The Working Image
Subseries · 1991 - 1993
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Materials in this subseries relate to the photo exhibition The Working Image. Materials include promotional materials, correspondence, installation requirements, and photographs.

Sara Diamond
The Lull Before the Storm
Subseries · 1989 - 1991
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Materials in this subseries relates to Diamond's four part video series The Lull Before The Storm. The video series consists of a series of two dramatized videos: "The Forties" and "The Fifties;" and a series of two documentaries: "Women of Wood" and "Community Acts."

Video description from Video Out: “This 4 part series (each segment is 48 minutes long) examines the changing roles of women in post-war British Columbia, and the transitions that were taking place in the family, the media and the workforce at the time.
Part 1 "The Forties” and 2 “The Fifties” explore the histories of working-class women and men in post-war transition. Parts 1 and 2 use the vehicle of a voice narrator, typical of advertising, documentary and dramatic narrative of the time, to orchestrate and speak the contradictory ‘wisdom’ of the era concerning women’s ideal position within society. It refers the viewer to the unresolved story of Dorothy, George and Bobby Sanderson, three individuals trapped within the messages and demands of their epoch.
Parts 3 and 4 “Women in Woods” and “Community Acts” uses the oral histories of the wives of BC wood and millworkers, as well as that of women working in the wood industry. Using a documentary format, these sequences stress the important role of rural women in family and community life, and the critical role of women’s activism in British Columbia.”

Materials include: editing logs; original photographs of the production; transcripts of interviews; drafts of the script; files on actors in the film; files on oral history participants featured in the film; notes on rehearsals; release forms; promotional materials;and copies of an instructional guide for educators. There are also research files for the project, and a related index.

Sara Diamond
The Influences of My Mother
Subseries · 1980 - 1982
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Materials in this subseries relate to Diamond's video "Influences of My Mother" (1982). Video description from Video Out: “Images of the artist’s mother, stories of growing up in a heady environment of socialist thought and Jewish identity during the McCarthy era, and the artist's own process of growth both away from and towards her mother, are negotiated through the work of grieving. A Canadian feminist video art classic, this video is also a personal testimony. In the artist's words, "it was an important way for me resolve my intense feelings over my mother's death."

Materials include copies of the script, notes from a residency, transcriptions of interviews with Diamond's grandmother, and press about the video.

Sara Diamond