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"The Marina Experiment" redefines the notion of 'home movie' ... Marina Lutz has combed through the family archives and created a brave and provocative short about parental voyeurism ... disturbing echoes of "Capturing the Friedmans" and Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom."
-- Glenn Lovell
AWARDS & OFFICIAL SELECTION
WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY - SUPER SHORTS International Film Festival
WINNER - AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - THE ACCOLADE COMPETITION
WINNER - BEST SHORT FILM - MELBOURNE Underground Film Festival
WINNER - BEST SHORT DOC - ATLANTA Underground Film Festival
WINNER - TABOO SHORT FILM - SYDNEY Underground Film Festival
WINNER - BEST SHORT DOC - WILD ROSE Independent Film Festival
WINNER - BEST SCREENPLAY - LEVANTE International Film Festival
NOMINATED - LAB COMPETITION - CLERMONT-FERRAND
NOMINATED - SHORT:DOX AWARD - CPH:DOX Documentary Film Festival
NOMINATED - GENERATION DOK; TALENT DOVE AWARD - DOK LEIPZIG
NOMINATED - STEPS Int'l Rights Protection Film Festival
NOMINATED - PUNTO DE VISTA Int'l Doc Film Festival of Navarra
NOMINATED - INT'L COMPETITION - COURTISANE Festival 2010
OFFICIAL SELECTION - MILL VALLEY Film Festival No. 32
OFFICIAL SELECTION - DOCUMENT 7 Int'l Human Rights Doc Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - NEWFILMAKERS at Anthology Film Archives NYC
OFFICIAL SELECTION - KASSEL Documentary Film & Video Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - International Film Festival IRELAND
OFFICIAL SELECTION - NEW YORK UNITED Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - WASHOUGAL Int'l Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - NIMBIN Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - VICTORIA Independent Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - da VINCI Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - PLAY-DOC Int'l Documentary Film Festival
UPCOMING FESTIVALS 2010
da VINCI FILM FESTIVAL - March 12 to 14
Corvallis, OREGON
COURTISANE FESTIVAL 2010 - March 17 to 21
Gent, BELGIUM
PLAY-DOC Int'l Documentary Film Festival - March 18 to 22
Tui-Galicia, SPAIN
BOSTON Underground Film Festival - March 25 to April 1
Boston, MASSACHUSETTS
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART - March 9, 2010
London, UNITED KINGDOM
The Marina Experiment will be screened in a gallery space with seating, as part of Glasgow's Document International Human Rights Documentary Festival selection of work from their archive
Wimbledon Space
Merton Hall Road
London SW19
TABAKALERA Int'l Contemporary Culture Centre - Feb 23 to 27, 2010
San Sebastian, SPAIN
CHAIR AND THE MAIDEN Art Gallery - Sept 30, 2009
New York, NEW YORK
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UNIVERSITY SCREENINGS
THE SORBONNE, Paris
WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART, London
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, Melbourne
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
THEATRICAL SCREENINGS
- The Marina Experiment screens in Paris with the winners from the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
- Expériment Marina sera à Paris avec les palmarès de Clermont-Ferrand
THE MARINA EXPERIMENT
Réalisé par Marina Lutz
Palmarès Labo
Dimanche 14 Février 2010 - 15h00
Forum des images
2 rue du cinéma
75001 Paris, France

Director Marina Lutz editing her film
BLOG -
SOME OF THIS IS UNRELATED TO THE MARINA EXPERIMENT AND SOME OF THIS IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE MARINA EXPERIMENT
WHAT PEOPLE SEARCH FOR
Posted on February 15, 2010 - Filed Under Human Foibles
I often check the statistics for my website. I like to know how many people are logging in on a given month, and what countries they are in. But what intrigues me most is the search terms they use that bring them here. The most popular one is “smells like pussy.” (see Post: I Smell, You Stink).
Smells like pussy. Smells like pussy. Smells like pussy. There. That oughtta bring me alot of traffic.
Other popular search phrases are “boiling semen” (see Post: Funny Camping Story), and “toe cleavage” (see Post: Something Resembling a Shoe Please). I am delighted that people with creepy sexual fetishes are drawn here, to a site that hosts a film that deals with the pain of creepy sexual fetishes. I must work harder at being misleading.
REVELATION
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under The Marina Experiment
Today I considered that maybe my relationship with my archive
is akin to my relationship with men.
I choose to be intimate with things that hurt me over and over.
QUICKIE
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under This Burns Me Up
The way he casually crossed his legs after sex disturbed me.
He was too comfortable for a one-night stand.
I wanted him off my bed.
I DON’T FIT IN
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under Human Foibles
I keep trying and sometimes I am given a smile or some notice and I think maybe I’ve been accepted but then a wave of disapproval crushes me.
I feel I am feeling I feel like I don’t fit in
I feel like an outsider. all these non artists
I feel judged they don’t notice me or laugh at my jokes they do not get me
They do not love me
Sometimes the office is so cold icy stoic mean angry ugly inside and out
I am so uncomfortable at my desk job
FACEBOOK INCOGNITO
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under Human Foibles
Facebook is creepy.
I am uncomfortable among groups. Don’t like crowds. Love being by myself. Sometimes enjoy the company of one specifically selected person at a time.
I am more confident sharing my feelings directly with one person I can be certain is understanding.
Facebook brings up all those high school feelings like cliques that I was not invited to be part of but wanted to be part of.
What bothers me about Facebook is that it is an open platform for people I know to criticize me or make me feel bad. I realize that these same people could applaud me as well, but that feels uncomfortable too. Now you think I’m paranoid.
You are probably judging me because I am writing in this blog that anyone can read. Precisely. The nice thing about this is that maybe no one is reading it. Or maybe two people have read it. But I don’t know them and maybe they don’t know me and there is no communication. I like the perceived anonymity of my blog.
LATE PEOPLE SUCK
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under This Burns Me Up
They have no respect for your time. They are time wasters. I am an accomplisher. My time is very valuable to me. I spent years wasting my time doing drugs and having unpleasant indiscriminate sex. My anger flares when I am left waiting. Being late, holding someone up, is a power play. I will not let you control me with your bad habits.
NON SCENTS
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under This Burns Me Up
The only thing that can be done is to sew up my nose. Literally, that’s what the doctor’s have told me. I had polyps removed from my nose in 1996 that were preventing me from breathing properly and ever since then I can breathe, but now everything that has a scent travels instantly up my cleared nasal canals and physically burns. Depending on the chemical in the scent, I either get a blinding migraine or I lose my voice or my eyes and face blow up with hives. I call it allergy cause people understand that. But really my body is intolerant of carcinogens. Perfume, cigarette smoke, household cleaners, scented candles, pesticide, febreeze, laundry products, anything that has artificial fragrance. I even need to wash out the laundry machine before I use it, cause if the person before me used a fragranced detergent and I wash my sheets in the same machine my skin will break out in scabs and sores. I think it’s my body’s natural reaction to warn me against things that are dangerous. It even warns me about stuff with men – I can smell when they are lying – literally. Unfortunately I tend to ignore the warning.
OBITUARY HAIKU
Posted on September 17, 2009 - Filed Under The Marina Experiment
he does not hear me in my eyes he sees himself I am traumatized
OBITUARY HAIKU #2
Posted on September 17, 2009 - Filed Under The Marina Experiment
a kiss on the lips I lock the door to my room is he really dead?
OBITUARY LIMERICK
Posted on June 15, 2009 - Filed Under The Marina Experiment
I once had a father named Abe
who treated me like a hot babe
he lecherously stared
while he photographed me bare
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