Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Matt Wolf about Marion StokesThe Criterion Channel's November 2023 Lineup|Current|The Criterion Collection and the television news archive she created.
Summary Stokes captured 840,000 hours of news footage over the course of 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012;Did Marion Stokes Record the World’s Largest Personal Archive of Television?|Snopes.com the VHS and Betamax video recordings were donated to the Internet Archive.MATT WOLF TALKS ABOUT RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT - Artfourm International
The Iran hostage crisis, which lasted from 1979 to 1981, made Stokes decide to make her project a round-the-clock job due to its continuous development as it happened.DVD Talk
Release and reception The film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was released and distributed by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber. It was also submitted for Oscar consideration.159 Documentary Features submitted for 2019 Oscar® Race - The Bahamas Weekly A book featuring imagery compiled by Wolf from more than seven hundred hours of Stokes's tapes, titled Input, was published in Fall of 2023.
The film has rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus reads, "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Story uses one person's singular quest to illuminate the blurred line between brilliance and obsession."
Home media The DVD and Blu-ray were released on March 10, 2020.Amazom.com
A VHS edition of the documentary was released by Lunchmeat VHS in 2023.Lunchmeat
See also InputPublic-access television talk show featured in the film, Stokes was a co-producer of the show before she started her recording project Sandy Hook shootingThe last ever event recorded by Stokes, news coverage of the shooting was aired on the day she died (December 14, 2012)
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Trailer Independent Lens The entire movie posted by EARTH IS A STAGE on official Vimeo channel