Marcus Lindeen

Born in 1980, Marcus Lindeen is a Swedish writer, director, and artist known for his work blending film, theater, and performance. He gained recognition with his first feature film, Regretters, a project that exists both as a theater play and a documentary film, which follows the journeys of two Swedish men through their gender reassignment process. The play has been translated into several languages, and the film received numerous awards, including Best Documentary at the Guldbagge Awards in 2011. That same year, his second film, Accidentes Gloriosos, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Best Medium-Length Film award. In 2018, Marcus Lindeen directed The Raft, a compelling documentary based on a 1970s social experiment where a group of people drifted on a raft to study human dynamics in isolation. The film premiered at CPH in Copenhagen in 2018, where it won the Grand Prize. In 2022, he presented The Trilogy of Identities at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, composed of the plays Orlando and Mikael, Wild Minds, and L’Aventure invisible. His performance works have been featured at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, the Schaubühne in Berlin, the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, and the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna. His projects, often at the crossroads of genres, explore themes of identity, transformation, and human relationships, playing with the boundaries between documentary and fiction. In 2024, Marcus earned a PhD in Artistic Research from the University of the Arts in Stockholm. Together with Marianne Ségol, he co-directs Wild Minds, a theater company based in Paris. © Photo: Benni Vlasson