Marcus Lindeen

Marcus Lindeen is an artist, writer and director. He studied directing at Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm and made his debut with Regretters, both a theater play and a documentary film about two Swedish men who change their sex twice. The play was translated into several languages and the film went on to win numerous awards. Among them the prestigious Prix Europa for best European documentary in Berlin in 2010. Regretters also picked up both the Swedish Academy Award (Guldbagge) and Kristallen (Swedish Emmy) for best documentary film in 2011. Besides touring a ton of festivals, the film was also screened at MoMA in New York and The National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow. In 2011 his second film Accidentes Gloriosos premiered at The Venice Film Festival and won the prize for best medium-length film in the Orizzonti section. It’s an experimental fiction in black-and-white that deals with car crashes, sexual adventures and bottomless holes. The film also screened in the festival Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou in Paris. His latest film, The Raft, premiered at CPH:DOX film festival in Copenhagen where it picked up the main award. The film is about the 1973 Acali expedition, where eleven people drifted across the Atlantic in a social study to understand violence. In the film he reunites the still living crew members on a life-size replica of the original raft. The film is the second installment in a trilogy of studio-based documentary films, where Regretters is the first. The replica used in The Raft has also been presented as an interactive art installation with video and sound work that was commissioned by and exhibited at Centre Pompidou in Paris (2017).