Chantal Partamian

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Chantal Partamian is an experimental and documentary filmmaker, as well as an archivist. Their work delves into the intersection of celluloid, memory, obsolescence, and political imaginaries, creating reflections on themes such as erasure, denial, repetition, and blur. Through a combination of experimental short films, film scratches, and documentaries, Partamian explores issues of justice, migration, identity, gender, and conflict, employing a diverse range of artistic practices. Partamian's work has been presented at multiple festivals in Germany, Canada, Lebanon, Armenia as well as France, Egypt and Croatia. It includes Chère N. (Jury and Audience award Dresdner Schmalfimtage 2007), Epistemic Space, in collaboration with the Armenian-Turkish cinema platform of the Apricot Film Festival Yerevan International Festival, Houbout a poetic essay, which very briefly explores fragments of a distance relationship, and Sandjak an exercise to dismantle the space of the Sandjak refugee camp in Beirut.

Most Popular Chantal Partamian Trailers

Total trailers found: 14

14Reels Trailer (2016)

12 March 2016

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

Katsakh: 1107 - Quantum Superposition and States Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

11:07 am Montreal / 6:07 pm Beirut - 11h07 Montréal / 18h07 Beyrouth: As part of a series of experiments on celluloid, this capsule was made to mark the exact time of the catastrophe and its echo throughout continents and time differences A capsule from Chantal Partamian’s "Katsakh" project, experiments on and with film originally published on Instagram.

Katsakh: The People Want the Fall of the Regime Trailer (2020)

01 January 2020

A capsule from Chantal Partamian’s "Katsakh" project, experiments on and with film originally published on Instagram.

Katsakh: 1km to Palestine Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

A capsule from Chantal Partamian’s "Katsakh" project, experiments on and with film originally published on Instagram.

Houbout / Landing Trailer (2021)

02 May 2021

Set to the black and white footage of a journey, Chantal Partamian's "Landing "is a short poem about lovers in transit.

Katsakh: Obsolete Frames Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

A capsule from Chantal Partamian’s "Katsakh" project, experiments on and with film originally published on Instagram.

Katsakh: The Eternal Flame Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

A capsule from Chantal Partamian’s "Katsakh" project, experiments on and with film originally published on Instagram.

Chère N. Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

A letter documentary shot in Lebanon in the summer of 2006 during the Israel-Lebanon war. A point of view that travels from Dahieh in Beirut to a bridge trying to be rebuilt nearby.

Sandjak Trailer (2021)

18 June 2021

Navigating three types of images, shot in three different periods, the film explores the poetics of haunting through compositions of images that create an entanglement between the past and the present.

Katsakh: On the Day I Left Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

A capsule from Chantal Partamian’s "Katsakh" project, experiments on and with film originally published on Instagram.

Still Burning Trailer (2016)

09 December 2016

Still Burning tells the unexpected reunion in Paris in June 1998 of André, a Lebanese filmmaker living and working in France, and Walid, the very close friend he has not seen for years.

Traces Trailer (2023)

01 February 2023

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.

Solace Trailer (2022)

27 August 2022

When the Beirut explosion occurred, my first thought was that of relief that my grandmother had passed a year and some before.

L'arbre Trailer (2021)

01 November 2021