The Marina Experiment

De/by Marina Lutz
(USA, 18', 2009)

'The Marina Experiment' is the result of over 10,000 photographs, super 8 home footage and reel to reel audiotape interrogations that director Marina Lutz's father made of her during her upper class upbringing in 1960s and 1970s Manhattan. A both eerie and infinitely fascinating archive that she herself has now sorted out and reassembled. Her father's transgressive voyeurism is turned against himself, while a courageous self portrait simultaneously grows out of the almost incestuously intimate 'home movies'. The result is a family exposé that can't be shaken off that easily, and which in an intelligent and absolutely unique way raises the question about the right to not be seen - a question that has become even more relevant in the present day.

Prix Awards

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Super Shorts International Film Festival (London)
BEST SHORT FILM
Melbourne Underground Film Festival (Australia)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Atlanta Underground Film Festival (USA)
TABOO SHORT FILM
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Australia)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Wild Rose Independent Film Festival (USA)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Levante International Film Festival (Italy)
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
The Accolade Competition (USA)
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
CurtoCircuito Int'l Short Film Festival (Spain)

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