Between 1979 and 2012, activist Marion Stokes was secretly recording television 24 hours a day. In between, Stokes recorded on 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, lies, triumphs, bloopers, talk shows, and commercials that tell us who we were, and show how television shaped the world of today.
An obsessive project of eccentric proportions or a personal archive of visionary scope? This documentary chronicles Marion Stokes’s incredible, enigmatic mission: a feat of activism in which a simple VHS tape can hold a fascinating mosaic of our world, while revealing the news’s manipulative nature.
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