Sled Island presents: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project & CineMusic Live

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

We can’t wait for you to see this mind-blowing film. Matt Wolf’s 2013 documentary Teenage, an innovative documentary about adolescence, was one of the most talked-about films we’ve screened at Sled—and we’ve been eagerly anticipating Recorder ever since. It’s the story of Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years. Her 70,000 VHS tapes capture history in a way no one else has. Unbeknownst to the public, networks have largely disposed of their archives, but Marion caught it all. Before fake news, she captured the truth. Triumphs, catastrophes, talk shows and commercials.

Recorder isa mystery in a time capsule and it’s endlessly fascinating. It’s about a radical Communist activist who became a fabulously wealthy recluse archivist and paid a profound price for dedicating her life to this visionary, maddening project. Recorder also features music by Sled Island alum Owen Pallett.

Preceded by CineMusic Live presents...Thunderbirds
CineMusic Live presents a performance that takes film and deconstructs it into separate components — motion picture, voice acting, and musical score — which are then reconstituted into an original experience by local artists, musicians, and comedians, who perform live improvisations over the recut and now silent film. By bringing these different disciplines together under one roof, CineMusic Live brings together a rich community of creators and a public that is hungry for new and unexpected combinations of the familiar and the unfamiliar.