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Date(s)
- 1989-2016 (Creation)
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Fonds
Extent and medium
70 cm of textual records
3 photographs
3 posters
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Name of creator
Administrative history
Pleasure Dome (active 1989– ), also operating as Artists Film Exhibition Group (Ontario), is an exhibitor of experimental and independent motion pictures and video recordings in Toronto, administered by an artistic collective. The original collective, comprising Jonathan Pollard, Barbara Sternberg, Gary Popovich, Phil Hoffman and Michael Hoolboom, presented its first program 22 Sept. 1989 at the Euclid Theatre in Toronto. Since then, Pleasure Dome has presented as many as 17 exhibitions per year, with works varying in length from less than 5 minutes to over an hour.
While it was in principle a requirement of the provincial government that publicly-exhibited motion pictures be approved by a board of examiners, the collective nonetheless declined to submit films and videos to the Ontario Film Review Board (previously the Ontario Censor Board) for approval as a matter of policy.
Annual membership subscriptions for Pleasure Dome events were introduced in the third season (1991–1992). Film and video exhibitions and associated lectures have been held in various locations in downtown Toronto apart from the Euclid Theatre (which closed ca. 1994), including chiefly Cinecycle, but also Latvian House, Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario and others.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
AGO credit line: Gift of Pleasure Dome, 2017
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of material produced by Pleasure Dome in Toronto for its programs of film and video exhibitions between 1989 and 2016, including press releases, clippings of notices and reviews, programming records with correspondence, and related material.
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Further accruals are expected.
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Conditions governing access
Open. Access to Special Collections is by appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright is held by the creator. It is the researcher’s responsibility to obtain permission to publish any part of the fonds.
Language of material
- English
- German
- French
- Dutch
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Status
Final
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation revision deletion
Created 4 October 2018
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description prepared by Gary Fitzgibbon, 2017
Archivist's note
Uploaded and adapted by Nirvana Chainani, 2019.
Prepared by Gary Fitzgibbon, 2017