Film-In-Residence "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project"

A documentary about a radical Communist activist, who created the greatest television archive.

Saturday, August 27, 2022 - 3:30pm
Saturday, September 3, 2022 - 3:30pm
Saturday, September 10, 2022 - 3:30pm
Saturday, September 17, 2022 - 3:30pm

Film-in-Residence is a series of casual matinee film viewings, accompanied by a self-guided tour of the exhibits at the Velaslavasay Panorama.

 Tickets: $10 General / $5 VPES Members

This month's film is Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019) directed by Matt Wolf.

Marion 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.

Saturday, August 27th

Saturday, September 3rd

Saturday, September 10th

Saturday, September 17th, 2022

Doors open: 3:30pm

Tour the exhibits: 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Film: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

 

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

 

 

 

 

----INCLUDING THE ILLUSTRATIVE TABLEAU---

Scene of a Recording

 

 

 

 

This event and exhibition are sponsored in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.