The Archive as Resistance: Dispatches from the 15th Taiwan International Documentary Festival
The 15th edition of the Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), held this May, served as more than a mere showcase for nonfiction cinema. It acted as a profound meditation on memory, the ethics of the archive, and the persistent, often quiet,…
The Archive as Resistance: Lana Daher’s Do You Love Me and the Mapping of Lebanese Memory
In the absence of a unified national archive, how does a nation remember itself? For Beirut-based multidisciplinary artist Lana Daher, the answer lies in the fragments—the discarded home movies, the grainy newsreels, the snippets of independent cinema,…
The Archive Crisis: Why the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Has Documentarians on Edge
The landscape for documentary filmmaking, already strained by a tightening market for distribution and dwindling production budgets, is facing a new, existential threat. As media conglomerates continue to consolidate, the precious, finite resource of…
Fragments of a Fractured Land: Lana Daher’s Do You Love Me and the Archive of Memory
In the landscape of contemporary documentary filmmaking, few works manage to capture the elusive, haunting nature of collective trauma as viscerally as Lana Daher’s debut feature, Do You Love Me (2026). A kaleidoscopic, 76-minute assemblage of seven…
The Art of the Archive: How ‘Ritual’ Zine Is Reviving the Communal Soul of Cinema
Earlier this summer, a quiet cultural shift began to materialize on the counters of independent businesses across the country. From the hallowed projection booths of Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema and the historic Vista Theatre in Los Angeles to…
Fragments of a Fractured Land: Lana Daher’s Do You Love Me and the Archive of Survival
In the landscape of contemporary documentary filmmaking, few works manage to capture the elusive, haunting intersection of personal history and national trauma as viscerally as Lana Daher’s debut feature, Do You Love Me (2026). A kaleidoscopic, 76-minute…
