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Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier
Thesis supervisor: Elizabeth Miller
Thesis title: HOMING: A Process of Co-Creating Documentary and Re-Making Home With Rural Women of Diverse Backgrounds
Iphigénie co-creates films anchored in the territory that raise questions of identity, highlight intercultural encounters, philosophies of life and, like a silent mantra, that listen to details.
As a filmmaker-mentor, she has accompanied the creation of more than forty short films in indigenous contexts. In light of this background, Iphigénie conceives documentary filmmaking as a political and poetic process, as a flagship tool, and as a tool for bridge building.
During her Master's degree in Media Studies at Concordia University, Iphigénie developed HOMING, a research-creation project exploring a documentary co-creation methodology with rural women of diverse backgrounds.
Master’s Thesis:
- Marcoux-Fortier, Iphigénie. 2020. “HOMING: A Process of Co-Creating Documentary and Re-Making Home With Rural Women of Diverse Backgrounds.” Montréal, Québec: Concordia University.
Journal Publication:
- Marcoux-Fortier, Iphigénie. 2019. “HOMING — The Homes of the Women of Our Rural Home: Documentary Co-Creation As a Practice of Unforgetting.” Synoptique 8.2: The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry 8 (2). https://synoptique.ca/8-2-labour-of-media-studies/.
Book Chapter:
- Rain, Juan, Ariella Orbach, and Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier. 2019. École de Cinéma et Communication Mapuce : Espaces Territoriaux, Regard Distinct et Collaboration. In Cinémas Autochtones : Des Représentations En Mouvements, edited by Sophie Gergaud and Thora Herrmann, GITPA/L’Harmattan, 73–94.
Other Publications:
- Magowan Greene, Amy, Meky Ottawa and Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier. 2019. Consent, Languages and Storytelling in HOMING, InMedia Res, December 12, 2019. http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/consent-languages-and-storytelling-homing
Conferences and Workshops:
- HOMING: Listening to Feminist Spatial Stories Through Documentary Co-Creation,’ presented with Morgane Asselin-Duguay at the 7th Emerging Scholars Symposium on Oral, Digital, and Public History, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), Concordia University, 6 th March, 2020. http://storytelling.concordia.ca/events/feminist-spatial-stories-7th-annual-emerging-scholars-symposium
- HOMING—The Homes of the Women of Our Rural Home,’ presented with Amy Magowan Greene and Meky Ottawa at the Symposium Poetics and Politics 4: Against Story, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, May 17th, 2019. https://poeticsandpolitics4.sites.ucsc.edu/archive/?fbclid=IwAR3HxeGb5aWbXCZqwiIt87rgZnCUxjW3WmOYouX-0fy_pN6gTKIcOPyW7IU
- Power of the lens: Unbound perspectives on intercultural research-creation,’ presented with Monique Manatch, Ariella Orbach, and Thora Herrmann at the (Un)bound: Interdisciplinary Dialogues conference, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 4th, 2019. https://www.interfaceunbound.com/
- The Labour of ‘Un-forgetting’: Co-Creating Documentary with Indigenous Communities,” presented at The Politics of Alternative Media (PAM), Concordia University’s Global Emergent Media Lab and Feminist Media Studio, November 16, 2018. https://www.globalemergentmedia.com/post/2018/10/26/alternative-media-cultures
- Power of the Lens in Mapuce territory: community processes of film creation,’ presented with Juan Rain, Ariella Orbach, and Thora Herrmann at the Access Points conference, Media Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, April 21, 2018. https://accesspointsconfer.wixsite.com/accesspoints