In silences, pasts, and hidden memories, archives offer a world of futures in which experimental cinema can flourish and create reimagined forms of existence, life, and presence for communities whose paths are other than linear. In fragments we cross paths. In futures we finally create the voice of our own narratives.
Discussion with filmmakers Samy Benammar and Mathilde Capone on cinema as a means of creating a modern archive.

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Samy Benammar is a Montreal-based artist and film critic. His writing and directing work is an experiment in socio-political issues inherited from his Algerian and working-class origins. His films include kaua’i’o’o (2023), Peugeot pulmonaire (2021) and sous-ex (2022). His films have been shown at festivals in Canada and abroad, and are distributed by Winnipeg Film Group, Vidéographe and CFMDC. His work can be found in the magazines Hors Champs, 24 images and Panorama cinéma. At the same time, he is completing a doctorate in research and creation on colonial photography in the Wilaya of Batna, Algeria. He listens to the bleating of the goat. Even when domesticated, it remains unpredictable, refusing to be docile.

A documentary filmmaker and popular education worker, mathilde capone has a master’s degree in social anthropology. A feminist, anti-colonial, lesbian and queer activist, she is involved in collective initiatives that provide food for thought. Her independently produced feature film La fabrique du consentement : regards lesbo-queer was presented at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and Image+Nation. His second feature, ÉVICTION, which traces the eviction of a queer housing collective, was unveiled at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, where it won the Audience Award.