Film Restored Visual
Katsakh: Mediterranean Archives
Si̇nema Transtopia
Presentation and screening
Katsakh is a living archive of small-format non-fiction film reels spanning from the 1920s to the 1980s, focused primarily on the towns and villages of the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond. Initiated in 2020, the archive emerges from histories of exile, genocide and cultural loss. Rather than merely preserving the past, Katsakh reclaims suppressed narratives and activates forgotten images as raw material for artistic creation, political memory and speculative futures.
Through the recovery, repair and public dissemination of this footage, the archive becomes a site of narrative resistance and imaginative possibility. It invites communities and artists to co-create counter-histories, where grief, memory and futurity converge, and to reimagine the Mediterranean beyond imperial frames and erasures.
Presentation: Chantal Partamian (filmmaker and archivist) (preproduced video)
In English
| Tickets | €9 |
| When | Thu 23.10.25, 14:00 |
| Where |
Si̇nema Transtopia |
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Chantal Partamian
is an experimental filmmaker and archivist working primarily with Super 8 film and found footage. Her films, which have been screened and won prizes all over the world, explore themes of displacement, memory and fragmentation. She is the director of Katsakh: Mediterranean Archives, which preserves small-format films from the Eastern Mediterranean, and conducts research on archival practices in conflict zones. Her writings primarily appear in ‘Hors champ’, bridging cinema and archival activism to reclaim and reimagine suppressed histories through poetic and political engagement with the moving image.