Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
2019 American film
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Matt Wolf about Marion Stokes[3] and the television news archive she created.[4][5][6]
- Kyle Martin
- Andrew Kortschak
- Walter Kortschak
- Chris Dapkins
- Matt Mitchell
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| Directed by | Matt Wolf |
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| Edited by | Keiko Deguchi |
| Music by | Owen Pallett |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $54,566[1][2] |
Summary
Stokes captured 840,000 hours of news footage over the course of 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012;[7][8] the VHS and Betamax video recordings were donated to the Internet Archive.[9][10][11][12]
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.[13][14][15]
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.[16][17][18][19][20] It was also submitted for Oscar consideration.[21] 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.[22]
The film has a 95% 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."[23]
Home media
The DVD and Blu-ray were released on March 10, 2020.[24]
A VHS edition of the documentary was released by Lunchmeat VHS in 2023.[25]
See also
- Input – Public-access television talk show featured in the film, Stokes was a co-producer of the show before she started her recording project
- Sandy Hook shooting – The last ever event recorded by Stokes, news coverage of the shooting was aired on the day she died (December 14, 2012)