Chantal Partamian is an experimental filmmaker and archivist with a focus on super 8mm and found footage. Her films, recognized and awarded at numerous festivals, are distributed through Vidéographe, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center.

As an archivist, Partamian specializes in preserving and restoring film reels from the Eastern Mediterranean through the project: Katsakh Mediterranean Archives, while also conducting research on archival practices in conflict zones. Her written works are primarily published in the Revue Hors-Champ.

Chantal Partamian's work spans both the artistic and archival realms, merging experimental cinema with preservation efforts to safeguard the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean region.

Publications

• Azad Archives Zine, The sacrality of the mundane: On archival encounters and the diasporic trace, Sept., 2024
• Commissaire du programme Là-bas pour Zoom-Out mai 2023
  • La comptine de Madame Jarrar, texte publié en ligne
  • Le Spectre Numérique, texte publié en ligne
• Hors-Champ, revue de cinéma en langue française:Entre politique de censure et dispersion archivistique : Awlad al-Zawat (1932), le premier film parlant égyptien  Janvier / février 2024
•  Exploration des traces cinématographiques algériennes : une conversation avec Nabil Djedouani, Hors-Champ, revue de cinéma en langue française. Juillet/Août, 2023
• Traces: Analog Cookbook, University of North Carolina Press, Issue #8, 2022: Analog Erotica, 2023
•  Les archives ne font pas histoire par elles-mêmes. Topologie d’une absence,Convergence : Association des archivistes du Québec (AAQ): Février, 2023
• "Nous", Hors-Champ, revue de cinéma en langue française. Septembre / octobre 2021
•  Burnt Video art and experimental film festival. Artist response, Edition 3 Program 4, November 2021
•  "Unlayering the Other: a Queer Armenian Experience",  Kohl Journal: Vol. 2 No. 2 | Winter 2016
• Fragmented Magazine Issue 01 : Location, video showcase  curated by Eleanor Juergens and Catalina Giraldo

Mentions and Interviews

• Gagnon, Monika Kin, and Elina Lex, producers. Talking Archives: Season 2, Episode 1 - Chantal Partamian. Counter Archive, 2024.

• Sitjá, J. (2024, April 10). Entrevista | Chantal Partamian. Retransmisión.mx.

• Rouxel, M. (2024, April 11). Rencontre avec Chantal Partamian : autour de son projet KATSAKH. Cinématrianon.

• Analog Cookbook, University of North Carolina Press, Issue #5, 2022: Analog futures : Katsakh

• Mahfoud, Z . (2023, June 21). ترميم الذاكرة المصوّرة...شانْتال برتميان: أتلفْ أرشيفاً تَمحُ شعباً. Al Modon

• AlSaheb, G. (2022). Toronto Arab Film Festival: Ghalia AlSaheb interviews filmmakers: Kinda Yousef, Chantal Partamian, Nour Chami & Murad Abu Eisheh. Toronto Arab Film Festival.

• Haddad, E. (2022, March 31). Mémoire du cinéma arabe. Le Courrier.

• Quilty, J. (2021, July 1). Short films on a shifting landscape. The Daily Star.

• Khalaf, C. (2021, June 24). Les Écrans du Liban se rallument. The Online Lebanese Journal (OLJ).

• Oberhausen Festival. (2021). 67th International Short Film Festival Catalog. Oberhausen Film Festival.

• Meddeb, H. (2007, 16 février). La chronique "Off" du Journal de la Culture de FRANCE 24. France 24.

• Rouxe l, M. (2016, August 16). Les clés du Moyen-Orient: La deuxième guerre du Liban (2006) : dix ans après.

• Media-Crisis. (2007, February). Media-Crisis / Liberation.

University lecturer:

• Université du Québec en Outaouais, Images and Society, March 2024

• Université du Québec en Outaouais, Moving Image, November 2023

• Université de Montréal, Archival Practices and Reuse in Filmmaking, 2023

• Lebanese American University, Representation of Women in Arts and Media, 2012

• American University of Beirut, Social Media and Video, Journalism Program, 2011

Speaker / Round Tables:

• CRIalt : Les archives visuelles de la Méditerranée – Présentation du projet KATSAKH

• AWID - Thailand: Feminist Archiving, Ethical Practices, Decolonization, and Continuity through Documentation

• Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference - Toronto: Archiving LBTQ Narratives in Lebanon: Challenges, Ethics, and Future Preservation in the Case of Meem

• Radical Film Network - Madrid, Spain: Katsakh: In Search of Mediterranean Archives, June 2024

• Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery: Twelve Faces of Armenian Feminism: Archiving between Preservation and Erasure, March 2024

• Political Aesthetic Series: Aftermaths of Displacement, Feb 2024 - La Lumière Collective and Feminist Media Studio

• Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery: Mediterranean Explorations: Evolving Archives and Varied Perspectives

• Lebanese Film Festival Canada: Reconstructing an Imagined Memory, June 2023

• Reactivating Archives for a History in the Present, Aflam Festival, Marseille, 2022

• Qalqalah, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery | Moderated by Emma Haraké

• Dawawine, Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite: Gender & the Abject in Cinema, Film Discussions, 2016

Exhibitions:

• 2022: Institut du Monde Arabe: Habibi, les Révolutions de l’Amour, Paris

• 2021: Oscillations, The Plumb Gallery, Toronto: Films by MAEV: Mokhtabar for Arab Experimental Film & Video Art

• 2020: 3rd NICHT-MUSEUM ZEITGEMÄSSER KUNST, Dresden, Germany

• 2020: 33rd Digital and Poetic Video Instants, Marseille

• 2019: artRISING: Visions of Revolution – Roslin Art Gallery, California

• 2017: The New Normal, UMAM Documentation & Research, Beirut

• 2017: Mayrig: Direct Approach

• 2008: Rails, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan

• 2007: Nafas Beirut, Espace SD, Beirut

• 2006: Centre Pompidou, D’encre et d’exil 6, le Liban, entre rêve et cauchemar: 6e rencontres internationales des écritures de l’exil

• 2006: Aktiv: Résonances des conflits dans la sphère de l'art

Affiliations
Vidéographe : Member of the Board of Directors
MENA Film Festival Vancouver:  Member of the Board of Directors
Société d'histoire de la seigneurie de Chambly
UNIVERSITY OF CONCORDIA: Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling: Community Affiliate
Zoom out / Hors Champ: Member of the editorial commitee