Marina Lutz, The Marina Experiment, 2009

The Marina Experiment is the result of over 10, 000 photographs, super 8 home footage and reel to reel audiotape interrogations that director Marina Lutz s father made of her during her upper class upbringing in 1960s and 1970s Manhattan. A both eerie and infinitely fascinating archive that she herself has now sorted out and reassembled. Her father s transgressive voyeurism is turned against himself, while a courageous self portrait simultaneously grows out of the almost incestuously intimate home movies. The result is a family exposé that can t be shaken off that easily, and which in an intelligent and absolutely unique way raises the question about the right to not be seen a question that has become even more relevant in the present day.