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.
INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES
︎ Interview in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (Swedish)
︎ Interview in French newspaper Le Monde (French)
︎ Interview with Filmmaker Magazine
︎ Interview with The Guardian
︎ Marcus Lindeen writes about The Raft for Talkhouse
︎ Interview in Swedish film magazine FLM (Swedish)
︎ Interview in Swedish magazine Filter (Swedish)
CONTACT
Inquiries about the company WILD MINDS
and the programming of theater productions:
Emmanuelle Ossena
e.ossena@epoc-productions.net
+ 33 (0)6 03 47 45 51
Charlotte Pesle-Beal
c.peslebeal@epoc-productions.net
+ 33 (0)6 87 07 57 88
For other questions, use mail
symbol in the lower right corner.
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.
INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES
︎ Interview in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (Swedish)
︎ Interview in French newspaper Le Monde (French)
︎ Interview with Filmmaker Magazine
︎ Interview with The Guardian
︎ Marcus Lindeen writes about The Raft for Talkhouse
︎ Interview in Swedish film magazine FLM (Swedish)
︎ Interview in Swedish magazine Filter (Swedish)
CONTACT
Inquiries about the company WILD MINDS
and the programming of theater productions:
Emmanuelle Ossena
e.ossena@epoc-productions.net
+ 33 (0)6 03 47 45 51
Charlotte Pesle-Beal
c.peslebeal@epoc-productions.net
+ 33 (0)6 87 07 57 88
For other questions, use mail
symbol in the lower right corner.
BIOGRAPHIE EN FRANÇAIS
Marcus Lindeen est auteur, metteur en scène et réalisateur de films. En 2022, il crée La Trilogie des identités au Festival d'Automne à Paris, composée des pièces Orlando et Mikael, Wild Minds et L'Aventure invisible. Ses performances sont présentées à la Schaubühne de Berlin, Kunstenfestivaldesarts de Bruxelles, Piccolo Teatro de Milan et aux Wiener Festwochen.
Son dernier film documentaire, The Raft, est sorti en salles en France et dans onze autres pays en 2018 après avoir remporté plusieurs prix et avoir été présenté dans plus de 50 festivals (IDFA, BFI Londres, Zürich, Melbourne, Sao Paolo, Moscou). La scénographie du film a été exposée au Centre Pompidou à Paris en tant qu'installation artistique. Le film a été sélectionné au New York Times "Critic's Pick", a été diffusé sur BBC Storyville et a décroché le Prix Europa du meilleur documentaire télévisé européen en 2019. Le même prix a été décerné au premier film de Marcus Lindeen, Regretters, en 2011 (disponible sur Netflix). La même année, son deuxième film Accidentes Gloriosos, une fiction coréalisée avec Mauro Andrizzi, a été présenté à la Mostra de Venise, où il a reçu le prix du meilleur moyen métrage.
Marcus Lindeen étudie la mise en scène au Dramatiska institutet à Stockholm (Le Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique). Il fait ses débuts en 2006 avec Regretters, pièce de théâtre et film documentaire. Parmi ses oeuvres théâtrales, on peut citer : The Archive of Unrealized Dreams and Visions (Stockholms stadsteater, 2012) et A lost Generation (Dramaten, 2013) joué au Parlement suédois, ainsi que pour la télévision.
Marcus Lindeen est artiste associé au Piccolo Teatro de Milan. Avec Marianne Ségol il est artiste associé au Quai, CDN d’Angers Pays de la Loire, at Nouveau Théâtre de Besançon and at CDN d’Orléans.
Dramaturg and translator Marianne Ségol works
together with Marcus Lindeen as an artistic collaborator.
Together they run the Paris based theater company Wild Minds.