Double Exposure combines four days of film screenings and a public forum including panel discussions, workshops, and special events.

This year’s Double Exposure turns on a single question: what happens to a democracy when the record itself is under assault, not only from those who manufacture doubt, but from the institutions once trusted to dispel it?

On the Record once implied security. To speak on the record was to be heard, held, verified. That assurance has grown fragile. The doubt this year’s theme names goes beyond a failure of attention or good will. It has been produced by platforms that delete inconvenient histories, by officials who quietly remove data from public websites, by a media landscape in which false information travels faster than correction, and by powerful organizations that quietly revise what they once asserted, without acknowledging on the record that they were ever wrong.

The DX slate engages both realities: the deliberate assault on facts, and the earned skepticism that accumulates when the systems designed to anchor truth repeatedly come up short. Each film and discussion on this year’s program asks audiences to look at evidence directly, and to weigh it themselves.

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