Name: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-04-25
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 6.5

About

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.

Theatrical

Apr 25, 2019

Director

Matt Wolf

Producers

Walter Kortschak, Lisa Ciuffetti, Brendan J Doyle

Studio

End Cue, Electric Chinoland, C41, Polari Pictures

Keywords

1970s socialism collector biography media vhs archive footage tape recording 9/11 mass media video recorder communism videotape iran hostage crisis 1980s activist 1990s compulsive hoarding media criticism media power film archives 2000s local television reclusive 2010s compulsive collector lost media documentary digital archiving television vhs tapes sandy hook