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In 1980 American jazz pianist Kazzrie Jaxen watched Ingmar Bergman’s FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES. Afterwards she wrote him a sixteen-page letter explaining how the film changed her life. It had started a dramatic inner journey which made her understand that she was not alone in her own body: hidden inside a small lump of fat under her skin rests the remains of her unborn twin.
DEAR DIRECTOR is based on a real fan letter written to Bergman that Swedish director Marcus Lindeen found while doing research on unfinished Bergman scripts for a play. Kazzrie Jaxen, who wrote the letter 35 years ago, stars as herself in the film. DEAR DIRECTOR had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in 2015, where it was awarded the Cinema & Gioventù prize for best international short film.
Marcus Lindeen is a Swedish writer and director working with film and performance. In 2022, he premiered The Trilogy of Identities at Festival d’Automne in Paris, consisting of the plays Orlando et Mikael, Wild Minds and L’Aventure invisible. His performance works have been presented at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Schaubühne in Berlin, Piccolo Teatro in Milan and Wiener Festwochen in Vienna.
Marcus Lindeen’s feature documentary film The Raft premiered at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen in 2018, where it won the main award. The Raft has since been shown in over fifty festivals (IDFA, BFI London, Zürich, Melbourne, Sao Paolo, Moscow) and was theatrically released in eleven countries, among them France, Mexico, the UK and the US. The film became a New York Times Critic’s Pick and was broadcasted on BBC Storyville. The scenography for the film was exhibited as an art installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2019, the film won the Prix Europa for Best European Television Documentary. The same prize was awarded to Marcus Lindeen’s debut film Regretters in 2011. Regretters is both a theater play and a documentary film about two Swedish men who talk about their individual journeys through gender reassignment and back again. The play has been translated into several languages and the film went on to win numerous awards, among them both the Swedish Academy Award (Guldbagge) and Kristallen (Swedish Emmy) for best documentary film in 2011. The same year his second film Accidentes Gloriosos premiered at The Venice Film Festival where it picked up the prize for best medium-length film.
In 2024, Marcus recieved a Ph.D. in artistic research from Stockholm University of the Arts, exploring the subject of “The Staged Conversation” through a project consisting of both film and theater works. His book on the subject, Iscensatta samtal (Staged conversations), is published in Swedish. The book can be ordered here.
Marcus is an associated artist at Piccolo Teatro in Milan and with Marianne Ségol he is an associated artist at three Centre Dramatique Nationale in France: Le Quai, CDN d’Angers Pays de Loire, CDN d’Orléans and CDN de Besançon. Together with Marianne he runs the Paris based theater company Wild Minds.
