Navigating the anarchival landscape of Philippine cinema: Insights from Bliss Cua Lim’s Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema

Bliss Cua Lim’s book Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (2024) is the culmination of a decade-long research project that examines the historical factors contributing to the absence of a legislated national audiovisual archive in the Philippines, an archive that would serve as the default custodian of the country’s historically significant films and audiovisual materials.