Chantal Partamian

Native to Beirut, to a Lebanese-Armenian family, I currently live and work in Quebec. Across my work, celluloid, memory, obsolescence and political imaginaries merge to reflect on erasure, denial, repetition and blur. I explore themes of justice, migration, identity, gender and conflict through the combination of a variety of practices. My work includes Chere N. Audience and Jury award winner at the Dresdner Schmalfimtage 2007. Tekrar, presented at Les Instants Vidéo, Marseilles. Epistemic Space, in collaboration with the Armenian-Turkish cinema platform of the Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival. Houbout a poetic essay, that very briefly explores fragments of a long distance relationship, Sandjak an exercise in the dismantlement of the Sandjak refugee camp space in Beirut. The haunting of the present by absences. The fragmentation of history and memory. I am Currently in the development phase of my next film "Odar" which also deals with fragmentation through the material condition of celluloid, a project funded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec and the Canada council for the arts. I have also collaborated on many different length projects as Director of photography and/or Senior Editor and have worked as a producer, a trainer in Guerrilla film making, social media and film as well as film critique. In April 2020, I started an online project of obsolete collections and temporal assemblages in an instagram profile and blog inspired by vinegar (@Katsakh) syndrome, the chemical degradation that occurs with cellulous acetate film.