Film-In-Residence tours 70,000 VHS and Betamax Tapes
FILM-IN-RESIDENCE
Film-in-Residence is a series of casual matinee film viewings,
accompanied by a self-guided tour of the exhibits at the Velaslavasay Panorama.
RECORDER: The Marion Stokes Project
Saturdays, August 27th - September 17th
3:30pm Tour the exhibits
4:00pm Film starts$10 General / $7 VPES Members
www.tickettailor.com/events/panorama/737936Marion Stokes recorded American television 24 hours a day for 30 years, from 1975 until her death in 2012. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle, and 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. Now her massive cache of tape recordings is being digitized for future generations and made available via the Internet Archive.
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Scene of a Recording
RECORDER: The Marion Stokes Project
Directed by Matt Wolf
Edited by Keiko Deguchi
Music by Owen Pallet
2019, 1h 27m, HD Color Video with Mixed Archival Formats
