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The Raft Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 99 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: Digital
- Language: English, French, Japanese, Swedish, German and Spanish with English subtitles
- Screens with: The Happiest Guy in the World
About the Film
In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behavior. Although the project became known in the press as ‘The Sex Raft’, nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three month journey. Through extraordinary archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition on a full scale replica of the raft, this film tells the hidden story behind what has been described as ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time.’
“Gripping…The surprisingly short leap from radical academic study to lurid exploitation is navigated with wit, sensitivity and rueful social awareness” – Variety
Winner of the Best International Documentary at CPH:DOX. Official selection at IDFA, BFI London Film Festival, Zürich Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, São Paolo Film Festival and DocLisboa.
About the Filmmakers
Marcus Lindeen Director
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. […] Read More
Screens with: The Happiest Guy in the World
The Happiest Guy in the World Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 11 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: Digital
- Language: English
About the Film
Two decades ago, Mario Salcedo went on a cruise — and never came back.
About the Filmmakers
Lance Oppenheim Director
Lance Oppenheim is a filmmaker from South Florida. He is terrified of jet-skiing and was much braver when he was six years old. His films have been screened at film festivals across the world including Sundance, Rotterdam, Tribeca, True/False, and featured at the Museum of Modern Art, the Fondazione Prada, and the Smithsonian. Read More
