Comprising snippets from over 20,000 pieces of images and sounds drawn from films, news bulletins, home videos, photographs, and more, Do You Love Me is an unquestionably monumental effort. Well, it is a monument, full stop: a dizzying collage of moments in the contemporary history of Lebanon as seen by cineastes and commoners alike. Lana Daher pays tribute to the resilience and resistance of her people as ever-repeating cycles of uncertainty and violence engulf her country. Ingenious in teasing new meanings through her montage, Daher promises in one intertitle, “You hand me your tragedies, I’ll give you my imagination.” And she does exactly that: welcome to Lebanon, remixed, rejuvenated, and beloved by pained observers of both past and present.
Clarence Tsui
SCREENINGS
NANTES
LE CINEMATOGRAPHE
DIM 23> 18h45
KATORZA
VEN 28> 18h00
