ABOUT

Director Marina Lutz editing her film – © 2007 Katrina Beale

BIOGRAPHY

Marina Lutz is the writer, producer, director and editor of the award-winning documentary short The Marina Experiment that had its USA television premiere on The Documentary Channel in 2010. Praised by the highly regarded French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema as “…eighteen extraordinary and exciting minutes…rarely has found footage revealed so many intimate issues,” they compared her film to Yoko Ono’s Rape and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom.

Spain’s most important cinematic event, the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival, invited The Marina Experiment to screen as part of their thematic retrospective of contemporary non-fiction cinema, where it was in the company of films by Werner Herzog 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. The Marina Experiment has been featured at more than 35 film festivals worldwide, from the high profile Mill Valley Film Festival, which has an impressive track record for launching the careers of new filmmakers, to the alternative Melbourne Underground Film Festival, which supports filmmakers who operate outside established film industry infrastructures. The film has been included in various festivals that promote the importance of the contribution of women in the development of audiovisual creation, as well as several international human rights film festivals. The Marina Experiment has garnered eight awards so far, including Best Documentary, Best Short Film and Best Screenplay.

After The Marina Experiment was nominated as an official selection in the LAB competition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the largest and most prestigious short film festival in the world, Marina found herself with a premiere theatrical screening at Forum des Images in Paris. The Marina Experiment was invited back to Clermont-Ferrand in 2011 for the 10th anniversary of the LAB competition, where it screened in both Clermont-Ferrand and Valence, France. In Spring 2011, The Marina Experiment was shown theatrically by Cinéma Apollo in Châteauroux, France as part of a highlighted program using film archives to explore the concept of memory through the film medium.

The Marina Experiment was included in a group show at the Wimbledon College of Art, which has a long and distinguished history as one of London’s major art institutions. The film has distracted passersby as a window installation at the Chair and the Maiden gallery in New York and appeared at Tabakalera in San Sebastian, Spain, an International Contemporary Culture Centre specialized in visual arts. The Death Be Kind gallery in Melbourne, Australia published stills from the The Marina Experiment accompanied by Marina’s writing in The Memorial, a catalogue of texts that captures the personal meaning behind the objects we inherit from the deceased and how these material possessions remain important in memory-making.

Marina has accompanied The Marina Experiment to several universities including The Sorbonne where she spoke to the film students about her creative process; the film screened there again as part of a lecture that examined the psychology of perversion. The Marina Experiment was shown at The Center for Neural Science at NYU, for a lab whose work is focused on how traumatic memories are formed, stored, and retrieved and Marina spoke at Bryn Mawr  for a course entitled “Identification in the Cinema,” about the ways that the self is defined in and through images.

Marina has said “I suppose by unleashing my pain in public it is helping me with ‘my life’s work,’ which I think is about survival. The filmmaking is just a side effect.”


FILMOGRAPHY

This is Marina’s first film.


AWARDS & FESTIVALS

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Super Shorts International Film Festival (London)

BEST SHORT FILM
Melbourne Underground Film Festival (Australia)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Atlanta Underground Film Festival (USA)

TABOO SHORT FILM
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Australia)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Wild Rose Independent Film Festival (USA)

BEST SCREENPLAY
Levante International Film Festival (Italy)

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
The Accolade Competition (USA)

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
CurtoCircuito Int’l Short Film Festival (Spain)


THEATRICAL SCREENINGS

2016
Cinéma La Clef – Paris, FRANCE

2015
Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art – St. Petersburg, RUSSIA

2011
Cinéma Apollo – Châteauroux, FRANCE
Bio Rio Cinema – Stockholm, SWEDEN

2010
Forum des Images – Paris, FRANCE


TELEVISION & RADIO BROADCASTS

2012
The Documentary Channel – USA
Wisconsin Public Radio’s nationally syndicated Peabody Award-winning program, “To The Best of Our Knowledge” – USA (nationwide via NPR)

2011
The Documentary Channel – USA
Canal + Ciné Cinéma – “Cinecourts Saison 2010-2011” présentée par Patrice Carré, FRANCE

2010
The Documentary Channel – USA (NY Times – Editor’s Pick)
Souvenirs From Earth – Cable TV broadcasting 24/7 program of Film & Video Art in FRANCE & GERMANY


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2014
36th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – Retrospective of American Short Films of the Twenty First Century

2011
33rd Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – 10th anniversary of the Lab competition

2010 to 2011
“The Memorial” a twelve month curatorial project – Melbourne, Australia – text and images from the film are reproduced in a zine devoted to objects inherited from the dead

2010
The Nomad Project with Access & Paradox – Art Fair, Paris
Wimbledon College of Art, London – Document 7 Human Rights Festival Retrospective
Tabakalera Int’l Contemporary Culture Centre and Museum, San Sebastian, Spain

2009
CATM – Chelsea Art Gallery, NYC, Installation (NY Daily News – Editor’s Pick)


UNIVERSITY LECTURES & SCREENINGS

2017
Université Paris 8 – Paris, France – Women’s Film and Feminist Cinema

2011
Thammasat University – Bangkok, Thailand
Lycée Rotrou – Dreux, France

2010
The Sorbonne – Paris, France –  Film Analysis, “Études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles”
NYU, Dept of Psychology & The Center for Neural Science – New York, NY – “Emotion, Memory, and the Brain”
Bryn Mawr, Film Department – “Identification in the Cinema”

2009
Australian Catholic University – Melbourne,  Australia – Film Department
San Francisco State University – Film Department


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