DER Filmmaker

Diana Allan

Diana Allan is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She is the founder and co-director of the Nakba Archive, a testimonial project that has recorded over 500 interviews on film with first generation Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. During the 2006 Lebanon/ Israel war she established Lens on Lebanon, a participatory film and photographic initiative funded by the Soros Foundation, Oxfam and the Prince Claus Fund. She completed her doctorate in anthropology at Harvard University in 2007 and is currently a fellow at Harvard's Film Study Center. In 2008 she was elected as a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows where she is currently working on her book Eating Their God: The Contingencies of Nationalism and Survival in Shatila Camp.

Other video works include: Chatila, Beirut (2002); Nakba Archive Excerpts, (2007); Fire Under Ash (2008) and Terrace of the Sea (2009).

Films Available at DER:
Still Life

Related Links
Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab