Laliv Melamed is a Professor of Digital Film Culture at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. She specializes in non fiction film and media. She is the author of Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence (CUP, 2023), as well as articles, short essays and book chapters on Israel-Palestine, media, affect and politics that appeared in JCMS, Discourse, American Anthropologist Review, Social Text (online), World Records and NECSUS, among others. Her current book project studies the entanglement of military optics with cultural imaginaries of violence, civil consent and secrecy. Additionally, she has worked as film programmer and curator for DocAviv, Artport, Oberhausen Film Festival, The Left Wing Film Club, and the Israeli nonprofit Zochrot.