Chant* Partamian

Thank you @eunice_curates @saffronmaeve @hibaali.info @sameensid.x @vicky_moufawadpaul @savac_ and @imagesfestival for this incredible recognition. And thank you to Deirdre Logue ✨ Huge thank you to everyone who helped me on the film @machine_yearning_ @hass.chami Yara @epartam . The film was made possible thanks to the @lecalq @canada.council and @cinemalfouadbeirut

A review of the program @tidf.tw Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival (TIDF), which includes a screening of Traces. Thank you @macguffinyy 《痕》 在生命裡某一些看似各異，內裡卻能共鳴的時刻，我們可能都將意識到，原來曾經認為與己身疏離的宏大歷史，其實並不遙遠。或許是身處異鄉的人，不再因丟失護照，而淪為無名的幽魂；或是生活於群山中的人們，能夠透過內在記憶，指認出回家的路；抑或回到故鄉的我們，不再任憑世代鴻溝持續擴大，遂從拾起單字開始，練習語言「母親」的語言。 實際上，歷史是由無數血脈匯流而成，若是我們攬鏡自照，直到眼前熟悉的臉孔，因為過度注視而逐漸變得陌生，在這樣抽離了日常的「陌生」之中，我們才得以跨越表象，仔細地辨認出皮膚紋理之下、藏於眼神深處的，關於族群與身分的印記。 而此般陌生感亦使我們得以看清，臉孔與歷史互為彼此的表裡。歷史不僅囊括了人的經驗與記憶，我們的身體與生命，也將不斷地承載、孕育出新生的歷史。 /films/69ef507ffd89780001901952/ A huge thanks to @ridm_festival and @videographemtl 🥰 … The film was made possible thanks to @lecalq @canada.council and @cinemalfouadbeirut

𝑭𝑹𝑨𝑮𝑴𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑺 / 𝑨𝑹𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑽𝑬𝑺 / 𝑺𝑷𝑬𝑪𝑼𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 ⟟ 28, Rue de Tanger, Casablanca ◴ Saturday 2nd May 2026 ⚠ Limited spaces available - reserve your spot via link in bio Join us this Saturday at @rue.de.tanger for an evening of screenings and conversations. How do we engage with histories marked by rupture, censorship, disappearance, and the absence of archives? And how might speculative thinking and storytelling open up ways of working with silence, fragments, and that which cannot be restored? With films by Chantal Partamian (@cpartam ), who will also introduce her project @katsakh (Mediterranean Archives). Followed by an invitation by Samia Labidi (@sami_hou ), alongside archival constellations and speculative gestures by Bouchra Assou (@dhakiracollective ) and Naziha Arebi (@nazihakarima ), featuring fragments of work by @mahasen_nassereldin , Sido Lansari (@siido ), and Sara Mediouni (@saritiiissima ). This evening marks the first stop of 𝐶𝑂𝑁𝑆𝑇𝐸𝐿𝐿𝐴𝑇𝐼𝑂𝑁𝑆, a nomadic programme initiated by @cinemadart & Intilak Collective. Featuring film publications by Intilak Collective available for consultation, alongside an interactive table with found footage from our personal collection and film fragments by Jocelyne Saab (@jocelynesaabasso ). Snacks and refreshments will also be available throughout the evening. See you there ✨ Credits: 1. Chantal Partamian : Image tirée du film « Traces », 2023, issue du film xxx suédois « A Poor Man’s Dream » 2.⁠ ⁠Chantal Partamian : Image tirée du film « L’arbre », 2021 3. Sara Médiouni : Un Retrato imaginario de Touria Hassan, 2025 4. Naziha Arebi: Fertile Void (recherche) 5. Sido Lansari: Les Derniers Paradis, 2019

We’re working on a new film. My co director is very diligent… 🙄

Interested in how artistic practices reframe our relationship to archives, particularly as living sites of care? Then don't miss out on the third webinar of the Archives in Dialogue series, "Art, Archives, and Practices of Care." This webinar brings together multimedia artists and professionals Chantal Partamian (@katsakh ), Sundus Abdul Hadi (@maktaba.bookshop ), and Tara Al Dughaither (@sawtasura ) to explore the archive as a living site that is worked, tended, and continuously negotiated. Drawing on their distinct practices, the three speakers will examine what care actually looks like within archival practice: who holds consent, who claims ownership, and crucially, what remains deliberately unarchived. Here, the act of not archiving emerges as its own form of ethical attention. 📆 April 22, 2026 | 12:30 PM 🎤 @cpartam , @sundusabdulhadi , @yammmamah 📍 Zoom 🎟️ Open to the public with registration 🖇️ Link in bio!

Nach der Armenien-Resolution: Schritte, Brüche und Erinnerungen in einer postmigrantischen Gesellschaft 🗓 Sa., 25.04.2026 · 🕔 17:00–22:00 🎟 Eintritt frei 📍 HKW Am 24. April 1915 wurden in Konstantinopel (heute Istanbul) hunderte armenische Intellektuelle verhaftet. Seither gilt das Datum als politische und symbolische Schwelle des Genozids an den Armenier*innen und anderen nicht-muslimischen Gemeinschaften des Osmanischen Reiches. Was Armenier*innen als Aghet bezeichnen — die Katastrophe — forderte rund 1,5 Millionen Menschenleben, führte zu Massendeportationen und zur globalen Zerstreuung der Überlebenden. Der Genozid ist mehr als ein historisches Ereignis: Er wirkt als anhaltende Zäsur — in Sprache, Verwandtschaftsstrukturen, kultureller Weitergabe und in Vorstellungen von Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit und Zusammenleben, geprägt von Leugnung und Erinnerung. Die Bundestagsresolution von 2016 erkannte diese Verbrechen als Genozid an und benannte Deutschlands historische Verantwortung. Doch ein Jahrzehnt später bleiben Fragen drängend: — Was bedeutet Anerkennung in der Praxis? — Wie entfaltet sich Erinnerungskultur zwischen staatlicher Anerkenntnis und beständiger Leugnung? HKW + AKEBİ e.V. eröffnen mit diesem vielfältigen Programm einen Raum, um sich diesen Fragen durch Kunst, Wissenschaft und kollektiven Dialog zu widmen — Solidarität als ethisches Engagement und politische Praxis im Mittelpunkt. Programm 17:00 Performance Sahman-Grenze-Kuş von Jasmin İhraç Safi Faye Saal 17:35 Benennungszeremonie Garten, Spreeseite 18:30 Filmscreenings Einführung von Öndercan Muti Chienne d’Histoire (Barking Island) Serge Avédikian, 2010, Frankreich, 15', Französisch mit engl. UT Epistemic Space Chantal Partamian, 2021, Libanon/Armenien/USA, 18', Englisch Safi Faye Hall 19:30 Gespräch Mit Banu Karaca,Tigran Petrosyan und Elke Shoghig Hartmann moderiert von Öndercan Muti Safi Faye Saal 21:00 Musik Mit Talin Hajintsi (Oud), begleitet von Chrysanthi Gerogiannaki (Schlagzeug) Angie Stardust Foyer Snacks & Drinks ➡️ Speichert euch den Termin, teilt den Beitrag & kommt mit Freund*innen. #HKW #AKEBI #Erinnerungskultur

Traces is part of Monitor 16: Shadows Swept Far Away, presented by SAVAC @savac_ in partnership with Images Festival @imagesfestival 🎬 🗓️ April 12 — Toronto Curated by Sameena Siddiqui @sameensid.x & Vicky Moufawad-Paul @vicky_moufawadpaul 🎟️ Tickets: /ImagesFestival/e/SAVACPresentsMonitor16 #Monitor16 #SAVAC #ExperimentalFilm

Monitor 16: Shadows Swept Far Away features these incredible films by artists Chantal Partamian and Ankur Yadav! Chantal Partamian Traces / آثار 2023, 8:45. Canada. In the midst of the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film. An unlikely unraveling of queer bodies taking shape and form, while the war-torn city around and its spectacle of toxic masculinity glitches and disintegrates. Chantal Partamian is an experimental and documentary filmmaker and archivist. Through their work, celluloid, memory, obsolescence, and political imaginaries merge to reflect on erasure, denial, repetition and blur. 💫 Ankur Yadav ‘एक पुराना’ (The Old One) 2023, 10:13. India. This experimental film weaves visual and textual poetry into a non-linear narrative set in the Aravalli Hills. Interlacing myth, ecology, and anatomy through reflections on the human thumb, the film evokes the mystical entanglement between people, nature, and unseen forces. Ankur Yadav is an artist and poet based in Rajasthan, India. Trained as a painter, his practice extends across film, poetry, scenographic installations, and site-specific interventions. His work subverts dominant narratives of exploitative capitalist practices, colonial knowledge systems, and oppressive regional politics and ideologies, which have degraded the environment of his native region. ~ Watch both films on April 12 at the Toronto premiere of Monitor 16: Shadows Swept Far Away, presented in partnership with Images Festival and curated by Sameena Siddiqui and Vicky Moufawad-Paul. 💌Screening + Q&A+Reception💌 ✨Innis Town Hall ✨6PM For tickets visit our bio or website at: /monitor-16/ Slide 1: Chantal Partamian Slide 2: Chantal Partamian, film still Slide 3: Ankur Yadav, credit Sarah Bodri Slide 4: Ankur Yadav, film Still @cpartam @ankursque @sameensid.x @vicky_moufawadpaul @imagesfestival

16mm Bolex footage from 2021 of @epartam in Montreal, to incite him to come back . 🕶️

What a trip, ya Beirut 🇱🇧✨ Presenting the Hudon-Pelletier Smyrna reel during the Multiple Lives of Images symposium was such an honor. Then, at the Second Encounter Film Festival, sharing the restoration work on Georges Nasser’s reels was a truly special moment. Not to downplay my oversized self on a PowerPoint thanks to Anaïs Farine!!! 🥹😅 I also had the joy of giving an excavation workshop at @alba.uob ALBA with some truly amazing, funny, and curious attendees and students 🎞️ And finally, sharing the stage with @ghada_sayegh for a beautiful screening of Météores was incredibly meaningful. Endless gratitude to @naas_network , @cinemathequebeirut , @metropoliscinema , @nouayda , and everyone who made this possible. Overjoyed and bursting with love ✨🤍