NEWS ARCHIVES

May 2011

The Observer Magazine, the Sunday publication of the UK Guardian and the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, brought director Marina Lutz over to London for a lengthy interview that you can read HERE.

The Marina Experiment will have its French broadcast premiere on Cinécourts, a TV show hosted by Patrice Carré on the Ciné Cinéma Club Canal+ channel.

El Mundo (elmundo.es), the largest digital newspaper in Spain with a daily circulation topping 24 million, reviewed The Marina Experiment. El Mundo’s printed circulation is over 300,000 readers daily.

The 10th International Documentary Film Festival in Ecuador will screen The Marina Experiment from May 12 to June 12, 2011 in Quito, Guayaquil and other cities in Ecuador.

APRIL 2011

On April 5, The Marina Experiment was featured at a festival in Dreux, France called Regards d’Ailleurs for a program called Fenêtre sur films, whose aim is to develop the region’s cultural life and give their audience an opportunity to discover films that are not blockbusters. Every year the festival is devoted to a different country, and in 2011 the festival will be centered on independent American films. Some of the other directors featured this year include John Cassavetes, Vincent Gallo, Kelly Reichardt, Lodge Kerrigan, the Safdie Bros and the Maysles Bros.

April 7 The Marina Experiment had a theatrical screening at Cinéma Apollo in Châteauroux for a highlighted program entitled Retours vers le futur that uses film archives to explore the concept of memory through the film medium.

FEBRUARY 2011

The 33rd Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival screened The Marina Experiment from February 4 to 12 for the 10th anniversary of the LAB competition, where the film was also shown in 2010. The screenings were held in both Clermont-Ferrand and Valence, France. The Lab competition features films that tell stories in non-traditional ways. It is where audiences go to experience jarring films, arresting viewpoints and accomplished risk-taking.

DECEMBER 2010

The Marina Experiment was a part of The NOMAD Project’s October 2010 official program. The NOMAD Project films screened at the Access & PARADOX Open Art Fair in Paris on Saturday, October 23, 2010, from 8 to 10 pm CEST. Access & PARADOX is a collaborative project open art fair based on sharing technology and knowledge. Their aim is to transcend the art fair, turning it into an exchange space for galleries and institutions to offer outstanding and artistically audacious projects during this contemporary art week.

Souvenirs From Earth
is a cable TV station currently broadcasting art in France (freebox, Orange, SFR/neufbox) and Germany (Unitymedia/Kabel BW). They broadcast The Marina Experiment at the same time it screened live in Paris. Souvenirs from Earth is the first TV station broadcasting a 24/7 program of Film and Video art, transforming flat screens into art terminals, giving access to the avant-garde of visual cultures. They first presented their concept of a TV channel for “video paintings,” similar to the ideas of Nam June Paik and Brian Eno, at London’s ICA in 1998 and at the Venice Biennale in 1999. The program went on air in 2006.

The Marina Experiment had it’s USA television premiere on Documentary Channel on Thursday, October 7th, at 10 pm ET/ 7 pm PT. Documentary Channel is primarily available through satellite television services DISH Network (Channel 197) and DIRECTV (Channel 267). Documentary Channel is a 24-hour-per-day, 7-days-a-week television network dedicated exclusively to airing the works of independent documentary filmmakers. See their PROMO and the NY TIMES CRITICS PICK

In December, Marina spoke at Bryn Mawr, one of the Seven Sister colleges, a women’s liberal arts college in Pennsylvania that was founded by Quakers. Her screening was for a course called “Identification in the Cinema” about the ways that the self is defined in and through images.

The Memorial is a twelve-month curatorial gallery project by Melbourne based artists Elvis Richardson and Claire Lambe featuring a display-case collection of inherited objects from over 100 people. Text and images from The Marina Experiment have been reproduced  in an accompanying zine that is for sale at the gallery – Death Be Kind – Upstairs @ The Alderman, 134 Lygon Street, East Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia. SEE ZINE HERE

AUGUST 2010

Spain’s most important cinematic event, the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival, has invited The Marina Experiment to screen as part of their thematic retrospective of contemporary non-fiction cinema, where it will be in the company of films by Werner Herzog, Frederick Wiseman and Lars von Trier. This festival is considered to be among the four most important film festivals in the world alongside Cannes, Berlin and Venice. Screenings are Friday September 17th at 22:00 – Principe Cinema, 2, and Saturday September 18th at 20:45 – Cinema Antiguo Berri, 8.

The Marina Experiment will have it’s USA television premiere on Documentary Channel on Thursday, October 7th, at 10 pm ET/PT. Documentary Channel is primarily available through satellite television services DISH Network (Channel 197) and DIRECTV (Channel 267). Details to come.

The Memorial is a twelve-month curatorial gallery project by Melbourne based artists Elvis Richardson and Claire Lambe featuring a display-case collection of inherited objects from over 100 people. Text and images from The Marina Experiment have been reproduced  in an accompanying zine that is for sale at the gallery – Death Be Kind – Upstairs @ The Alderman, 134 Lygon Street, East Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia. SEE ZINE HERE

The South American premiere will be at the 2º Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali – 29 de Octubre al 7 de Noviembre in Cali, COLUMBIA – the seat of the Cali Cartel, the richest most powerful crime syndicate in history, as well as a prime destination for people seeking cheap cosmetic surgery.

In November, she is scheduled to speak at Bryn Mawr, one of the Seven Sister colleges, a women’s liberal arts college in Pennsylvania that was founded by Quakers. Her screening is for a course called “Identification in the Cinema” about the ways that the self is defined in and through images.

Upcoming screenings include a reprise at The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival where the The Marina Experiment screened in February 2010 and will be shown again in February 2011 as part of the 10th anniversary of the LAB competition in both Clermont-Ferrand and Valence, France.

In Spring 2011, The Marina Experiment will be shown as part of a highlighted programme organized annually by a movie theater called Cinéma Apollo in Châteauroux, France, using film archives to explore the concept of memory through the film medium.

MAY 2010

The Marina Experiment has won its eighth award, a trophy and cash prize of 2000 € from Curtocircuito International Short Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. As a winner, it screened again in Santiago de Compostela for the Curtocircuito Na Rúa “Palmarés 2010” programme.

On June 8th, The Marina Experiment will be screened for a Lab on “Emotion, Memory, and The Brain” at The Center for Neural Science at NYU. The professor in charge, Joseph E. LeDoux, is a neuroscientist as well as a singer and guitarist in the science-themed rock band The Amygdaloids. They do covers of songs like “Manic Depression” and “19th Nervous Breakdown,” as well as original songs about brain disorders. The band has had many guest guitarists including Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith), Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart) and Peter Holsapple (REM). He has recorded two duets with Rosanne Cash. Marina believes she will be addressing research scientists, scholars and visiting faculty from all over the world, as well as fellows, graduate and undergraduate students whose work is focused on how traumatic memories are formed, stored, and retrieved. Or maybe she will just be in a lab with a couple of scientists. The lab is particularly interested in how the brain learns and stores information about danger. Marina is pretty excited about this, and wonders if they might use her as a test subject in some of their research.

In November, she is scheduled to speak at Bryn Mawr, a women’s liberal arts college in Pennsylvania that was founded by the Quakers. This screening is for a course called “Identification in the Cinema” about the ways that the self is defined in and through images.

Her upcoming screenings include The International Women’s Film Festival of Barcelona, which promotes the importance of the contribution of women in the development of audiovisual creation and a reprise at The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival where The Marina Experiment screened in February 2010 and will be shown again February 4 to 12, 2011 as part of the 10th anniversary of the Lab competition, with special programmes screening in both Clermont-Ferrand and Valence, France.