07/22/2021
"But the former Guggenheim Fellow really plunged an unimaginably huge archival project when he decided to make a film about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia activist who became a wealthy recluse in her later years and recorded American television 24 hours a day for over 30 years. As seen in Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, spanning 70,000 videotapes that captured revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows, and commercials, Stokes’ visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart."
Recorder filmmaker Matt Wolf talks about the enormous undertaking it was to comb through Marion Stokes' archives and getting her family to tell her remarkable story.