Scene from the film Traces
Scene from the film Traces
Scene from the film Traces
Scene from the film Traces
Scene from the film Traces
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Traces

Direction
Year 
2023
Country
  • Canada
Duration
9min 

The project explores the cinematic gaze towards queer bodies as well as their constant absence from the recurrent narrative or collective memory. It started with the discovery of 80s pornographic found footage and so we asked ourselves the question, what if this was found in a dilapidated house? What if instead of the process of the image disintegrating, we bring it to life as if the disintegrated lives of queer women that were meant to stay unseen or disfigured or left to rot slowly come to life and assert their presence within the context of the 80s in Lebanon, a period so overtly represented by war and violence and from which all narrative about personal lives and intimacy is removed.

Details

  • Original title
    Traces
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Chantal Partamian, Yara Al Chehayed
  • Editing
    Chantal Partamian, Hassane Chami
  • Duration
    9 min (1-15 min.)
  • Year
    2023
  • Country
    • Canada
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Distribution
  • Festivals
    • Traverse Vidéo, France, 2025
    • Rencontres Internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), Canada, 2024
    • Queer Lisboa & Queer Porto International Queer Film Festival, Portugal, 2024
    • BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, UK, 2024
    • WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Canada, 2023

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