Board of directors

Anna Grigorian is an emerging experimental artist from Armenia, whose art practice is currently based between Canada and Armenia. With a background in sculpture, literature, and photography, her current chosen medium is moving image. Her video work revolves around socio political and economic problems, and examination of power relations, through mixing elements of theater, early cinema, and constructed surreal studio environments.

Marion Lévesque-Albert has been working in the cultural field for several years. Starting out at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, she went on to work in distribution for Vidéographe. Currently working for Les Films de l’Autre, Marion devotes her time and energy to supporting independent filmmakers, both administratively and creatively. Passionate about documentary and experimental cinema, Marion is also a filmmaker and producer.

Benoît Morissette lives in Montreal. He has been interested in Quebec, Canadian and international contemporary art for several years. He currently works as a planning, programming and research officer at the regional homelessness service of CIUSSS-du-Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-Montréal. In the past, he has held a number of elected positions in associations and unions.

Experimental filmmaker, documentarian and archivist, Chantal Partamian’s work consists of experimental shorts, and documentaries through which she explores themes related to migration, identity, gender, conflict and obsolescence through a combination of practices. She works primarily on super 8mm and with found footage.

Partamian’s work has been presented in numerous festivals in Germany, Canada, Lebanon, Armenia as well as in France, Egypt, the United States and Croatia. It is distributed by Vidéographe and Groupe intervention Vidéo (GIV).

Partamian has also collaborated on numerous projects as director of photography and/or chief editor. In April 2020, Partamian launched an online project of temporal assemblages and visual archives in an Instagram profile inspired by Vinegar Syndrome @Katsakh.

Yannick Desranleau is a multidisciplinary artist, who works in collaboration with Chloë Lum. Their works lie at the intersection of various mediums: photography, video, installation, sound, text, performance, and print. Their practice questions the concept of collaboration, as well as the relationships between sensitive bodies and inanimate objects. In their recent work, these topics are examined through the lens of chronic disease. Working together in Tiohtiá: ke (Montreal) since 2000, their works have been exhibited internationally and are part of the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Experimental filmmaker, video artist and independant curator, Guillaume Vallée graduated from Concordia University with a Major in Film Animation and MFA in Studio Arts – Film Production option. He’s interested in alternative forms of moving images in analogue forms as a way of considering the direct interaction between different mediums. His work is an exploration of materiality within the creative process. In attempts of creating a more complex relationship with his subject matter, Vallée makes use of cross-medium forms that range from camera-less techniques to optical effects, glitch, video feedback, resulting in expended & hybrid pieces. He works mainly on Super8, 16mm and VHS.

Vallée is questionning the notions of recycling & reappropriation, treating all material as found footage within a collaborative practice, in film, video & performance. His audiovisual performances  have been shown in various festivals in Canada, USA, France, Italy and Japan and his experimental films and videos, distributed by Vidéographe and Winnipeg Film Group, have been screened internationnaly.

His work has been awarded in 2013, for The Yellow Ghost (Grand Prix Dérapage), in 2016 at the WNDX festival (Festival of Moving Image) for his short film, Le bulbe tragique (” Best Canadian Work ”) and il fait gris dans ta tête, tout à coup, a videopoem codirected with Sarah Seené, as part of Festival de Poésie de Montréal (Grand Prix Video-Poésie 2018).

Vallée works in theater, with his first video design for the piece Aalaapi – ᐋᓛᐱ, presented at the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in early 2019. He also produces music videos for different musicians from here and elsewhere (Cédrik St-Onge, Hazy Montagne Mystique, Jean-Sébastien Truchy, Darrick, among many others).
Guillaume Vallée has been an artist-in-residence at La Bande Vidéo (Quebec, Canada) in 2017 and at Le Fresnoy – studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing, FR) & Signal Culture (Owego, USA) in 2018. He’s currently an artist-in-residence at Main Film, part of the Film Factory program (2019-2020).