Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The newspapers called it the “sex raft,” but Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés always insisted that his experiment was only ...

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 ...

Before "The Real World" and the reality television boom, there was anthropologist Santiago Genovés' extremely dangerous sex raft. The newspapers called it the “sex raft,” but Mexican anthropologist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in the mists of 1973, it seemed a pretty novel idea for an anthropologist to place 11 demographically diverse strangers on a ...

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 ...

Watch a clip from the documentary ‘The Raft,’ directed by Marcus Lindeen. Photo: Metrograph Pictures The raft in Marcus Lindeen’s documentary “The Raft” was conceived and designed by a Mexican ...

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FAIRBANKS — From Copenhagen to Chicago, the 2018 documentary “The Raft” has received accolades at two international film festivals, but for one Fairbanks woman, the story began decades ago. Fé Seymour ...

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 ...

Discovery Channel is getting in on the Max action with a new social experiment series. The cable network has ordered Survive the Raft, which also will premiere on the rebranded streamer in July. The ...

Marcus Lindeen's documentary 'The Raft' tells the story of a bizarre 1973 social experiment involving 11 volunteers sailing across the Atlantic on a raft to see whether conflict would result. By Frank ...