The Marina Experiment

The short documentary film The Marina Experiment is the debut offering from New York filmmaker Marina Lutz, that has its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.

Sunday, 23rd August at 9 PM (LOOP, 23 Meyers Place, (03) 9654 0500 and

Thursday, 27th August at 7 PM, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker  (EMBASSY, 1 Queensbridge Street, (03) 9686 2944

The film will also be screening at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2009.

Original music is by celebrated Australian musician MICK HARVEY, who was a member of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (1983 - 2009).

THE MARINA EXPERIMENT recently garnered two respected awards, Best Documentary from the influential Super Shorts International Film Festival in London and the prestigious Award of Excellence from The Accolade Competition.

THE MARINA EXPERIMENT is an evidentiary review of a childhood spent under the persistent gaze of an obsessively voyeuristic parent that explores the hazy boundary between the recording of priceless memories and the inflicting of emotional harm. It is culled from a vast collection of archival audiotape, super 8 films and photographs spanning 1959 to 1975 (the first 16 years of the filmmaker’s life, as documented by the filmmaker’s late father).