Back in the mists of 1973, it seemed a pretty novel idea for an anthropologist to place 11 demographically diverse strangers on a bare-bones raft for 100 days, and task them with crossing the Atlantic ...

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Marcus Lindeen’s documentary The Raft boasts such a compelling story that it could have easily coasted on its trove of archival materials. In 1973, Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés enlisted ten ...

Winner of top honors at CPH:DOX, Marcus Lindeen's lively, argument-rich doc revisits anthropologist Santiago Genoves' controversial Acali Experiment. Back in the mists of 1973, it seemed a pretty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What could possibly go wrong when ten beautiful strangers — six women and four men — are thrown together in cramped quarters for a ...

The newspapers called it the “sex raft,” but Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés always insisted that his experiment was only driven by a lust for science. An ambitious but altogether typical man ...

Marcus Lindeen’s The Acali Experiment and Patricio Guzmán‘s The Pearl Button (pictured) are among 33 documentaries that are to receive support from the Sundance Institute Documentary Films Program.

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