artifact : arte by skill (ablative of art -, ars skill) plus factum.
Something transformed through human intervention.
Modification occurring in the course of experimentation on the observed object, through the effect of the method or material employed to conduct the experiment.

Caroline Martel founded artifact productions in Montreal in 1998.
Their focus is the use of existing material - be it "Reality" or mediations of it - through a creative engagement faithful to, and inspired by the very subjects/objects covered/explored.
The product: documentary research and production.
The process: experimentations with archives, film, video, sound, words and ready-made, i.e. old and new media, and with actual life - art if act - art through action.

Over the years, artifact productions have been collaborating with some of the best cinema artisans of the industry. Within her company, Caroline Martel has produced and directed THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERATOR , an archival film celebrated worldwide as a very imaginative documentary, "an hour of non-stop intellectual and visual stimulation" (VARIETY). Artifact productions have also produced 50h of the material that came to compose DERNIER APPEL/HOLD THE LINE, a National Film Board of Canada production ( 52 minutes, 2001 ) on the last fight of Bell Canada's telephone operators .

On the short term, artifact is setting afoot two new projects;
on the medium term, to participate in co-productions;
on the longer term, to grow through the process of art and time.