Collective memory

Coming up on The Culture Show, Day of the Dead is a celebration of life, death, and remembrance.

But what happens when we forget our shared history? Embrace Boston's Imari Paris Jeffries takes on the importance of collective memory, the stories we preserve, and the dangers of rewriting the past.

From there, Laura Benanti.

She's a Tony Award winner, played Melania Trump on Late Night, and spent a lifetime worrying what other people think of her.

and if you have access to it and if that is like readily there for you to be able to answer those questions that's the moment you can be much more confident in your bids and your proposals and yeah it's overall a much better play

back to ross at piros you talk about a firm's collective memory so define that for an architect who's never heard the phrase and and tell me what it costs a firm when that memory walks out the door with a person

when you think about like just institutional knowledge at a firm, it's really hard to capture the firm's memory because everyone has their own, like I said, skill sets before, ways of doing work.

And the valuable thing is that memory is something that we all, if you go to the cloud, can help build upon and compound.

Thank you for having me.

This year's festival is about memory and preserving our collective memory through cinema and through many individual stories that build up to be our collective history and collective story.

Of course, as the Lebanese people are experiencing the very difficult consequences of war and crisis and Israeli occupation and through cinema you can see all the daily life of Lebanese people and also convey another perspective on Lebanese history and situations and stories and it's very important for us to allow filmmakers to tell their stories and to show many versions of the stories.

Now this year's edition features quite a diverse range of work and Lebanese cinema is often shaped by geopolitical events that are broader than film itself.

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I, I know that other folks have been pushing for it, but it's taken a lot of pushing on this story, and that journalism has something to do with why it hasn't entered the collective memory in the same way, you know, for example, as other events, but also journalism and information has been the thing that's been pushing it forward, yeah?

yeah?Yeah, I think it's a mixed record.

I mean, I wanted to go back to the political, you know, scenario back in nine- 1976.

We really appreciate Karen DeYoung as well.

But it's also a story of how the media can be exploited for all the wrong reasons.

And it's a story also about collective memory.

You know, there, there's a reason that some of us always say September 11, 2001 because-