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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

2019

Documentary

Documentary 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"As we get to know Marion Stokes, her motivation for doing what she did comes to seem more and more resonant and fascinating and less and less of a private compulsive geek-out."	POS
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Personal obsession becomes a remarkable piece of history (...) The results are fascinating, weird, and often quite moving."	POS
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Intriguing from first minute to last (...) [A] stranger-than-fiction tale with the narrative twists and turns of a well-paced thriller"	POS
United Kingdom	Stephen Whitty Screendaily	"A small, carefully crafted film (...) [It makes] for fascinating viewing"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The story is a bit ghastly but also, viewed from this remove, weirdly exhilarating (...) [Stokes's] taping of everything created an irreproducible archive that is enlightening and the stuff of madness."	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman The Wrap	"Compelling portrait of a nation through the lens of an unknown citizen (...) A riveting sketch of a complex woman"	POS

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