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 has 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 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.
Marcus Lindeen lives between Paris and Stockholm, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts, exploring the subject of “The Staged Conversation” through an artistic research project consisting of both film and theater works.
Since 2021, Marcus is an associated artist at Piccolo Teatro in Milan and with Marianne Ségol-Samoy he is an associated artist at Comédie de Caen in Normandie. 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 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.
Marcus Lindeen lives between Paris and Stockholm, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts, exploring the subject of “The Staged Conversation” through an artistic research project consisting of both film and theater works.
Since 2021, Marcus is an associated artist at Piccolo Teatro in Milan and with Marianne Ségol-Samoy he is an associated artist at Comédie de Caen in Normandie. 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 né en 1980. Il est auteur, metteur en scène et réalisateur de films. Sa dernière pièce L'Aventure invisible a été créée en octobre 2020 au T2G, CDN de Gennevilliers dans le cadre du Festival d’Automne à Paris. Son dernier film documentaire The Raft est sorti dans les salles françaises en février 2019. Son spectacle Wild Minds s’est jouée au T2G, CDN de Gennevilliers en octobre 2019 dans le cadre du Festival d’Automne. Ses précédents spectacles ont notamment été joués à la Schaubühne à Berlin, au Théâtre Royal Dramatique de Stockholm and Théâtre national d’Oslo.
Marcus Lindeen étudie la mise en scène au Dramatiska institutet et à Stockholm (Le Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique). il fait ses débuts en 2006 avec Regretters, pièce de théâtre et film documentaire sur deux suédois qui changent de sexe deux fois. La pièce est traduite en plusieurs langues et le film remporte de nombreux prix comme le prix Europa dans la catégorie Meilleur film documentaire européen (2010). Son deuxième film, Glorious Accidents (2011), un long métrage de fiction, remporte un prix au Venice Film Festival et est projeté au Centre Pompidou en 2012. 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. En janvier 2017, Marcus Lindeen expose la scénographie de sa production cinématographique, The Raft, dans une installation interactive, dans le cadre du Festival Hors Pistes, au Centre Pompidou. The Raft revient sur l’histoire de onze individus, dans les années 1970, envoyés, à bord d’un bateau, en plein Océan Atlantique, afin d’étudier leur comportement en communauté. Le film est présenté en avant première au Centre Pompidou. Il est également projeté dans les salles françaises et dans dix autres pays. Il gagne plusieurs prix et est montré dans plus de cinquante festivals. The Raft est également diffusé sur la BBC et est lauréat du Critic’s Pick du New York Times.
Marcus Lindeen est artiste associé au Piccolo Teatro de Milan. Avec Marianne Ségol-Samoy, il est artiste associé à la Comédie de Caen-CDN de Normandie.
Dramaturg and translator Marianne Ségol-Samoy works
together with Marcus Lindeen as artistic collaborator.
Together they run the Paris based theater company Wild Minds.