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- Artist Talk - Meet the Film Factory - December 10, 2024 - 6 pm - 9 pm
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Artist Talk – Meet the Film Factory
Meetup - Documentary Cinema - Fall 2024
Date / Heure
10 December 2024
6 pm - 9 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
With Elian Mikkola, Ralitsa Doncheva, Laura Kassar & Félix Lamarche
Free upon registration
Meet 4 recipients of the 2023-2024 Film Factory program who received support from Main Film for a year-long residency in experimental film research or production!
From the application process to the screening of their films at numerous festivals, as well as their experimentation throughout the residency, discover the different stages of their work and the benefits of the program through their experience.
A great opportunity if you’re planning to submit your application to the 2025-2026 Film Factory!
Next application deadline : January 20th, 2025
If you have any questions, please send an email to : services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Application file :
Elian Mikkola – Colouring Transition
Finnish-born artist Elian Mikkola (of Karelian descent) currently lives between Regina, in Treaty 4 territory, and Montreal (Tiohtià:ke), Canada. Originally from Turku, Finland, Mikkola holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Tampere. Iel received their Master’s degree in Media Production in 2019 from the University of Regina.
Mikkola works closely with analog and digital images and explores themes such as memory, spatial dependencies and queer belonging. Iel has been researching eco-responsible film development since 2017. Mikkola’s work has been presented at several film festivals in Canada and abroad. His first film SAARI (2016) was selected in the student program of TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival in 2017, and his last two films premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2020 and the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2021.
Ralitsa Doncheva – Fly Fly Sadness
Ralitsa Doncheva is a Bulgarian artist and filmmaker based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Drawing on the traditions of experimental analog cinema and intuitive, poetic approaches, her Balkan heritage and mythology, her films evoke shimmering worlds on the brink of disappearance. Between 2013 and 2018, Ralitsa created a series of short films and writings based on archives and representations of Eastern Europe. The final project (almost) impossible worlds was exhibited at the Dazibao gallery and then presented as a performative lecture at the 2022 Experimental Cinema Symposium at the Cinémathèque Québécoise. Her films and video installations have been shown worldwide at festivals, galleries and micro-cinemas. In 2016, she received the Eileen Maitland Award at the 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival for her film Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves. Her recent project Desert Islands, shot with her father, screened at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema and the Images Film Festival in Toronto, among other festivals. Ralitsa is ardently involved in the local film and arts communities, where she contributes as a director and editor. Her recent collaborations have been presented in galleries and museums such as the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke), the Musée d’art de Joliette and, more recently, the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Félix Lamarche – Matter of Time
Félix Lamarche is a Montreal-based independent filmmaker exploring the possibilities of documentary practice. Les terres lointaines, his first self-produced feature, was released in 2017 and won the Pierre-et-Yolande-Perrault award for best first feature documentary that same year. Since then, he has directed and produced a series of short films, including La frontière (2017), Terres fantômes (2019) and Un fleuve l’hiver (2020). His most recent film, Le chant de la nuit (2022), was recently presented in international competition at Dok Leipzig in Germany, then at RIDM in Montreal. In his practice, he is interested in both traditional and experimental film language. He is currently working on a second feature-length documentary.
Laura Kassar – Matter of Time
Laura Kassar is an interdisciplinary researcher. She is currently working to build bridges between theoretical activity and material practices, exploring in particular the resonances between sculptural and interpretive work. Inspired by the resistance of materials to the efforts of thought, she is developing her reflections as a learner in metal work (MIG and TIG welding) in parallel with her doctoral research. She is also a lecturer at the Université de Montréal’s Minor in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.