https://recorderfilm.com/
"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.
Before “fake news” Marion was fighting to protect the truth by archiving
everything that was said and shown on television. The public didn’t know
it, but the networks were disposing their archives for decades into the
trashcan of history. Remarkably Marion saved it, and now the Internet
Archive will digitize her tapes and we’ll be able to search them online
for free.
This is a mystery in the form of a time capsule. It’s about a radical
Communist activist, who became a fabulously wealthy recluse archivist.
Her work was crazy but it was also genius, and she would pay a profound
price for dedicating her life to this visionary and maddening project."
Unfortunately I missed this at the Melbourne International Film Festival
last month.
Via ramil rodaje and
mudhooks@pluspora.com.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
