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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Fri Jan 31: 7.00pm
Sat Feb 01: 4.00pm, 7.00pm
Sun Feb 02: 4.30pm, 7.00pm
Mon Feb 03: 3.00pm
Tue Feb 04: 3.00pm
Wed Feb 05: 7.00pm
Thu Feb 06: 7.00pm
Matt Wolf
US
2019
1h 27m
** Co-presented with Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound! **
About
For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 as the Sandy Hook massacre played on television while Marion passed away. In between, Marion filled 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today and in the process tell us who we were.
A mystery in the form of a time capsule, Recorder delves into the strange life of a woman for whom home taping was a form of activism to protect the truth (the public didnt know it, but the networks had been disposing their archives for decades into the trashcan of history) and though her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, her extraordinary legacy is as priceless as her story is remarkable.
Description courtesy of Zeitgeist Films.
** Screens with a short segment from the Kahlil Joseph project BLKNWS **
BLKNWS is an ongoing project by artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph that blurs the lines between art, journalism, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique. As an artwork, BLKNWS has exhibited at The Underground Museum in Los Angeles, across Stanford University in Palo Alto, and was an anchoring work at the 58th Venice Biennale. For art house and theater screenings in conjunction with Sundance, BLKNWS is presented in a condensed form that nods to Pathé News (now British Pathé) newsreel series that traditionally aired ahead of film screenings in the 1900s. Responsible for conveying current events and interests specific to their moment in brief, multi-story cycles, these Pathé newsreels blurred news with propagandist uplift during both World Wars. BLKNWS appropriates the newsreel format as an opportunity to reimagine the contemporary cinematic experience, mixing an element of seriousness with a lighthearted upending of expectations of what news can be.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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