FREE - Tue., June 16 at 7:30 p.m. on OVEE| View a special virtual screening and join the conversation on the life of a radical activist who videotaped everything on television for 30 years. REGISTER HERE
You're invited to join WKAR and Indie Lens Pop-Up for a virtual screening, featuring Recorder: The Marion Stokes Projects. Marion Stokes secretly recorded television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years—capturing revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, and catastrophes that tell us who we were and how the media shaped the world of today.
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project| Indie Lens Pop-Up takes place Tuesday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m. on OVEE.
The virtual event begins with a full screening of the film and continues featuring a live stream Q&A and community-led breakout discussions on topics such as responsible tourism, the National Parks, environmental sustainability in New Jersey, and more.
THE PANELISTS
- Matt Wolf
Director of Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project - Kyle Martin
Producer of Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project - Michael Metelits
Film Subject of Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project - Roger Macdonald
Television Archive Fellow of Internet Archive (moderator)
FREE WITH REGISTRATION
The event is free, but registration is required | REGISTER HERE
WHERE
Virtual screening on OVEE.
MORE ABOUT "RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT"
Marion Stokes secretly recorded American television 24 hours a day for 30 years, from 1975 until her death in 2012. Long before the era of “fake news,” the Philadelphia-based activist believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would one day be invaluable, protecting the truth by archiving everything that was said and shown on television. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, and her son reflects back on his fractured, fascinating relationship with his complicated and fabulously wealthy mother. Now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized for future generations, giving us all an eye-opening glimpse into how television shaped, and continues to shape, our world.
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