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- Meet the Film Factory residents (2023-2024) - December 15, 2025 - 6 pm - 9 pm
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Meet the Film Factory residents (2023-2024)
Meetup, Rencontre - Documentary Cinema - Fall 2025
Date / Heure
15 December 2025
6 pm - 9 pm
Lieu
Main Film Atelier
2025 Rue Parthenais #304-A, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2
Guests | Irina Tempea (Bica), Yen-Chao Lin (Invisible Landscape), and Chantal Partamian (Adumbration)
Free upon registration
Come and meet the three artists selected for the 2023-2024 Film Factory, supported by Main Film as part of a one-year residency dedicated to research or production in experimental cinema. From submitting their applications to screening their works at various festivals, through their phases of creative exploration, they will share the major milestones of their journey as well as the concrete benefits of this residency.
This is an excellent opportunity for those considering submitting a project to the 2025-2026 edition of the Manufacture de Films!
This exchange will provide a better understanding of how the program works, but also open up a space for dialogue around the projects in progress, the experiences, the challenges, the highlights, and the experimentation processes specific to each resident.
Deadline for the next application: January 20, 2025
For more information, please send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Irina Tempea
Irina Tempea is a filmmaker and cultural worker of Romanian origin based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her artistic practice, which resembles a personal diary, revolves around the analog process she uses to reveal herself. In doing so, she questions the materiality of film while filming her daily life and loved ones. She has just completed her first short film, Dans ma tête, which deals with her multiple sclerosis. Irina holds a bachelor’s degree in film studies from the University of Montreal. She now wishes to open up a dialogue with other cinematographic devices in order to bring them together in a second work.
About Bica :
Bica is an experimental short film about my Romanian origins. In the research phase, my project focuses on exploring my Romanian identity as a second-generation immigrant, highlighting the links between the landscape, textures, colors, and memories associated with my grandmother. This approach aims to reveal the facets of my cultural heritage, while exploring how these visual and sensory elements have shaped my perception of the world. This exploration of identity will be done through my grandmother’s eyes and through the exploration of the texture and colors associated with the territory. Bica is actually the diminutive of bunica, which means grandmother in Romanian.
Yen-Chao Lin
Yen-Chao Lin 林延昭 is a multidisciplinary artist born in Taipei and based in Montreal. Having grown up in a multi-faith family, she is interested in religion, spirituality, divination arts, dowsing, occult sciences, alchemy, Feng Shui, oral tradition, and power—anything that can be perceived but not necessarily seen. Passionate about natural history and an avid collector, Yen-Chao gathers specimens of mineral, botanical, animal, and industrial origin, including objects that bear witness to the recent or distant past and have a story to tell. Through intuitive play, collaboration, salvaging, and collecting, her tactile practice often incorporates various craft techniques, such as copper enameling, ceramics, textiles, and gilding, to create installations, sculptures, and experimental films.
About Invisible Landscape :
Invisible Landscape is the production of a short film about Taiwanese Taoist folk religion with a particular focus on Feng Shui, exploring the invisible ways in which popular beliefs shape collective culture and personal identity. It is an experimental landscape film that uses the organic texture of the cinematic form to support its complex, varied, and vibrant folkloric content, capturing the unique symbiotic relationship of Taoist folk beliefs in contemporary Taiwan.
Chantal Partamian
Chantal Partamian is an experimental filmmaker and archivist specializing in Super 8 mm film and archival footage. Her films, which have been recognized and awarded at numerous festivals, are distributed by Vidéographe, the Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. As an archivist, Chantal Partamian specializes in the conservation and restoration of film reels from the eastern Mediterranean as part of the Katsakh Mediterranean Archives project, while conducting research on archival practices in conflict zones. Her writings are mainly published in the journal Hors-Champ. Chantal Partamian’s work spans both the artistic and archival fields, merging experimental cinema and preservation efforts aimed at safeguarding the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean region.
About Adumbration :
In 1989, only an intercine moviola survived an explosion in my father’s film studios. In this Lovecraftian Beirut, the machine has been attempting to turn back time ever since, in an effort to shed light on the moment of the catastrophe and find a solution to the ultimate evil that looms over the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, a graveyard sea that holds deep within it the ultimate book, the Necronomicon, written by AlHazred, the mad scientist who disappeared in Damascus centuries ago.