Unrelated Writing
How I Lost My Virginity To Stiv Bators
#pleasekillme
#punkrock
#punk
#stivbators
#thedeadboys
#deadboys
#losingvirginity
How I Buried My Mother – Photo Essay
A follow up to my film has been published online as a photo essay by Whisk(e)y Tit Journal.
REVIEWS
FULL TRANSLATION
“… eighteen extraordinary and exciting minutes. Rarely has found footage revealed so many intimate issues.” - Thierry Méranger, Cahiers Du Cinéma
PRINTED ARTICLE
“The Marina Experiment raises many complex issues, not least the sensitivity and controversy of using children in art. It is a brilliant piece of filmmaking from somebody who had absolutely no knowledge of how to do it: ‘I did it instinctively,’ Lutz says.” - Louise Carpenter, Observer Magazine, Guardian.co.uk“… disturbing echoes of “Capturing the Friedman’s” and Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom.” - Glenn Lovell, Film Critic/Author cinemadope.com
“… a chilling document of psychological abuse and fractured survival.” - John Ginn, daVinci Film Festival
“... brilliantly intense and the message is penetrating.”
Carol Mandel, Dean of the NYU Libraries“Powerful in it's simplicity.” - James Vincent Colbert, Screenwriter
“Your film is astonishing. I love it, really sad, witty and poignant. Has moments where I felt like I was being indoctrinated.”
- Jane Pollard, iainandjane.com“… controversial and overwhelmingly powerful ... it brought tears to my eyes.” - Paul Hawkins & Dug Degnin
“… eerie and infinitely fascinating … intelligent and absolutely unique…” - Mads Mikkelsen, CPH:DOX
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Wisconsin Public Radio Interview January 2018 — “Who’s Watching Us? When Family Photos Go Too Far”
I did an interview for Wisconsin Public Radio / To The Best of Our Knowledge, in 2012. They are re-aring my interview this weekend in a new show called “Who’s Watching Us - When Family Photos go too Far” and I am currently featured as the first item on their homepage
Who’s Watching Us?
When Family Photos Go Too FarTheir podcasts air on stations across the country via NPR and other public radio programming. All stations can be found here by entering your state:
Link to my interview:
Above is a link to my original interview, September 9, 2012, for Wisconsin Public Radio's nationally-syndicated, Peabody Award-winning program, “To The Best of Our Knowledge." The theme of this particular show was "Privacy." Producer Doug Gordon created an astonishingly moving nine minute expose. Please read the comments. At every Q&A I've ever done, there is a man who comes to the defense of my father, like he feels he has to defend the entire male population for their behavior. I am grateful that all of this is now being discussed in the #metoo conversation. And I thank the clinical director of a child advocacy center who comes to my defense in the comments.
UNIVERSITY SCREENINGS & LECTURES
THE SORBONNE
PARIS
Film Analysis, “Études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles.”
Université Paris 8
PARIS
Women’s Film and Feminist CinemaWIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART
LONDON
Document 7 Human Rights Film Festival RetrospectiveTHAMMASAT UNIVERSITY
BANGKOK
Thailand’s leading film critic and writer, Sonthaya Subyen, screened the film as part of the Best of the 2009 Sydney Underground Film Festival.LYCÉE ROTROU
Dreux, FRANCE
Screening and discussion with high school film students.
BRYN MAWR
Pennsylvania
Screening and lecture for a course entitled “Identification in the Cinema” about the ways that the self is defined in and through images.NYU
NEW YORK
Screening and discussion at The Center for Neural Science for a course called “Emotion, Memory, and the Brain.” The students research is aimed at understanding the biological mechanisms of emotional memory and how the brain learns and stores information about danger.
© 2010 Leila Morrissey
leilamorrissey.comQ&A with Mick Harvey at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2009
Marina at the Mill Valley Film Festival 2009
© 2009 Marcia HymanWorld Map
© 2009 Wendy Joy Morrissey