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