Released in partnership with Cargo Film Releasing
Marion Stokes was secretly recording television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four-hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012, while the Sandy Hook massacre played on television as Marion passed away. In between, Marion recorded on 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows, and commercials that tell us who we were, and show how television shaped the world of today.
Following its run on Mubi it is now available to rent from BFI Player.
Press:
- Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project review – the ultimate news junkie - The Guardian
- The original binge-watcher: why Marion Stokes spent 33 years glued to her TV - The Telegraph
- Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ Review: A VCR Obsession - New York Times
- Ahead of her time: the woman who recorded the news for 30 years - The Guardian
Available to rent on BFI Player.
