We are delighted to announce that Ylenia Olibet has been selected as the recipient of our 2025 REW/FF residency.

Ylenia Olibet is a researcher and educator who has been based in Montréal since 2016. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University. Her work explores how audiovisual archives can inspire social movements, with a focus on transnational and decolonial perspectives, as well as feminist and queer approaches to film culture in Francophone contexts.

Ylenia holds a PhD in Film Studies from Concordia University. In August 2023, she defended her dissertation titled “Feminist Film Culture in 21st-Century Québec: A Transnational Perspective.” Her doctoral and postdoctoral research has been supported by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec. Her writings have been published in Feminist Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories, Mai: Journal of Feminist Visual Culture, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and several edited volumes.

During her curatorial residency at Vidéographe, Ylenia will develop a reflection on the city of Montréal. How does Vidéographe’s collection document the city’s urban transformations? Her project aims to examine the social construction of space through material issues—such as gentrification or the environmental crisis—while considering the urban landscape as a lens for thinking about resistance beyond fixed territorial and identity frameworks.