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tree climber / writer / director / producer / actor

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@britmarling
brit marling
4 years
2 days ago I woke up in the middle of the night and thought: I’m too scared to publish this. I then remembered #audrelorde ‘s “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” - it gave me courage. 🙏🏼 to the brilliant @craftingmystyle and @nytimes
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I put pen to paper about my own experience in hopes that it would give myself + others solace, strength + context
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6 years
Excited and terrified by the road map of these 8 scripts, which took us all summer and fall to write. Shooting Part II of @The_OA starts Jan 2018. Here goes something... @z_al @BARFH
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the end of #theoa “🐙🍷😭🙏🏽🔑” - last text to Grandma Vu
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it’s been a long time coming but it’s coming... love to u all for being patient 🖤
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@britmarling
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chills @themisstoto chills
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@britmarling
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7 years
To love someone is to agree to live inside an unsolvable mystery. You can never get to the bottom of another's truth or cause.
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@britmarling
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5 months
chapters 1-3 now streaming on @hulu
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Film Updates
6 months
Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson star in Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s limited series ‘A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD.’ Debuting on FX and Hulu on November 14.
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amazing stuff on auction including my favorite @The_OA costume to raise health care funds for crew members affected by strikes // // help us protect the art of storytelling and each other 💥 @tusctogether
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perfect feeling 🍃 @crazynobody_
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truth bomb: sometimes it's hard to live the life that would make you happy instead of the life that would make other ppl think you are happy
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7 years
We did a worldwide search to cast Steve in #TheOA . We found him in Ireland. @PatrickGibson00 will break your 💜. Pic from his disposable cam
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👉🏽 tune in today to @TheEllenShow — I get to talk about childhood alligator drama and fan impressions of Old Night #TheOA with a trailblazer I’ve long admired ❣️
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@britmarling
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4 years
I think often about how I owe my ability to make a living as a storyteller to @sundanceorg taking a risk on programming my first two micro-budget films at the festival. If you have the means — help keep independent storytelling thriving:
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The Sundance Institute
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Join @The_OA writer/actor, @britmarling , in standing up for the future of independent storytelling. The time is crucial for artists all over the world: By making a donation to nonprofit Sundance Institute, you help bolster our many programs, labs, grants, and funds. Donate now.
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2 yrs daydreaming and 6 months in the writers' room on #TheOA / find out what's inside these scripts Friday @Netflix
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Happy 2017 // love 2 all who watched, listened + spoke up about @The_OA or made art like @Imblueice // inspires us 2 keep on 🌊Thank you
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7 years
I'm w/ 750,000 ppl in downtown LA standing up for a human future (including this rebel):
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@britmarling
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Me: Totes. Thanks, Dad. Dad: What's a totes? Me: Oh, it's short for totally. Dad: Was totally long?
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@britmarling
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4 years
los angeles// compton // now 💥 #blacklivesmatter
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7 years
. @Gladwell and I talk sci-fi vs spirituality, handling criticism and the weird journey of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" in @InterviewMag --
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If you want to feel hard won hope instead of utter despair at climate crisis read @NaomiAKlein ‘s #on 🔥. The equitable sane world many of us long for is actually within reach because of the GAMEOVER climate change presents if unmet by dramatic systemic change. #GreenNewDeal
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I think my heart just skipped a beat. I have read every book @NaomiAKlein has ever written — she’s a lighthouse in these turbulent times. #ThisChangesEverything is an urgent read.
@NaomiAKlein
Naomi Klein
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You all know I am an overly serious Tweeter, freaking out about climate breakdown and corporate coups. But I interrupt that programming to say: watch @The_OA PART II this weekend. Do it with friends. Because it's brilliant and revolutionary and actually about another world, IMO.
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Brace yourself for @thelizcarr — a force of nature as an actor and an activist 💥
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Liz "blue tick" Carr
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It's been 16 months since I auditioned for @The_OA Part II so I'm ridiculously excited to be watching it @netflix today! To be part of the beautiful enigma that is #TheOA is truly a thrill & honour. Thanks to @dominickevans @z_al @britmarling for giving me this chance to believe
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7 years
@msleamichele @RobertsEmma you both are so lovely. The support means a lot. I'm smiling big over here.
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.⁦ @z_al ⁩ and I talk with ⁦ @samlansky ⁩ about risk taking and the final hours of finishing Part II ⁦ @The_OA
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I have been telling stories with @z_al one way or another since we met when I was 18. At first we just told each other stories back and forth in our dorm rooms, later our living rooms,…
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6 years
I accept the #FilmStruck4 challenge from @juliahartowitz /// for me::: RED (Kieslowski), PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki), THE PIANO TEACHER (Haneke), LA JETEE (Marker)
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. @z_al and I have spent the last few years inside #theOA labyrinth. all chapters this Friday on Netflix //
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. @ShawnMendes thank you, man. that's one of my favorite moments too. @rizmc 's every movement is the truth
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In the womb u r fed before u know hunger. Held, never dropped. Hard 4 mom 2 compete w/ biological perfection. 2017 gotta cut moms some slack
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A deeply moving piece that beautifully articulates why we don’t have more stories made by women about women —
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. @NaomiAKlein 's book #thischangeseverything should be required reading in the school of life
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5 years
Think you are good at reading strangers?... think again: find a copy of @Gladwell ‘s #TalkingToStrangers or listen to the audiobook, which is next level 💥
@LiveTalksLA
Live Talks LA
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Sold out crowd to see @Gladwell in conversation with @britmarling talking about his new book #TalkingToStrangers video soon and also will be on our show on @SpecNews1SoCal @littlebrown @pushkinpods
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4 years
for anyone asking questions about #DefundThePolice I would read this op-ed in the ⁦⁦ @nytimes ⁩ by ⁦ @prisonculture ⁩ to understand where police/prison industrial complex come from and why they cannot be reformed:
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4 years
memory lane 🐚
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this artwork!
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GAME OVER! Can we talk about how ‘A Murder at the End of the World’ is the best show of 2023?! @britmarling #amurderattheendoftheworld #illustration
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@SamFragoso ⁩ dug up our very first interview and had me read back answers I gave a decade ago… so, some time travel, some OA, some #amurderattheendoftheworld
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10 years
Fuck the materialists who said "I'll believe it when I see it." So many of the things I find worth believing in I can't see
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4 years
talking with #rebeccasolnit tonight about her brilliant new memoir, the struggle to become a writer, and finding #hopeinthedark during quarantine // @cityartssf
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4 years
police and prisons have mushroomed in direct correlation to austerity measures as a way to enforce the “organized abandonment” of the most vulnerable by the right and by the left. Listen to Ruth Wilson Gilmore break it down and prepare to be dazzled 👉🏼
@theintercept
The Intercept
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“What we’re trying to do is get people to understand the kinds of relationships that have normalized a sense that what prisons do is natural, normal, and inevitable,” says Ruth Wilson Gilmore on @intercepted .
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tonight at 9pm west coast. tomorrow all over the world… join us for a whodunit turned inside out:
@FilmUpdates
Film Updates
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Emma Corrin’s first camera test for Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s murder mystery series ‘A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD,’ premiering tomorrow on FX and Hulu. 🔗:
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Same, Andy. My feelings after episode 5 of #amurderattheendoftheworld . What a ride. @britmarling @z_al got me like 😩🫣🫠🧐 #amurderattheend #cliveowen
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10 years
. @danedehaan if we end up playing siblings in an NY/LA post apocalyptic film we should give @soitgoesmag the cred http://t.co/4O8IFdmeyr
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Gifting idea💡 : a guide to celebrating outsider status. Being weird is good. @LidiaYuknavitch is great: #TheMisfitsManifesto
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2nite @jimmyfallon @DannyDeVito + I talk possible meanings of acronym #TheOA . No one cracks it but some LOL guesses. Tune in: #FallonTonight
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🙏🏼 @Variety for a very happy eve of shop talk amongst storytellers…
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Variety
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Brit Marling talks about subverting whodunnits in “A Murder at the End of the World”: "It felt like we could write a Gen-Z detective that could be the age and gender of a victim and put her in a position of power.” | Variety's "A Night in the Writers' Room"
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so important to support independent films opening weekend 👉🏽 find #FastColorMovie at a theatre near u // @juliahartowitz @jehorowitz
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Katy Horan
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If you have been waiting for a superhero origin story that is also a glorious celebration of WOC and feminine power, then go see #fastcolormovie THIS WEEKEND if you can! Grateful to @juliahartowitz @jehorowitz for making this special film
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“entertain solutions on the scale of the crisis we face.” 👉🏽
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the hardest thing, which no one ever tells you, is to figure out exactly what it is you actually want
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@SamFragoso ⁩ and I talk storytelling and #TheOA and mostly Michael Jordan on his deep dive podcast ⁦ @TalkEasyPod
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turn your sound👆🏽 @matsor composed the theme music for Part II (and Part I). For me the music he wrote for the theme over the credit sequence captures completely the feeling of a…
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@Grimezsz always inspired by your music and your world building ways ❣️
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7 years
Santa, would like a part on #AdventureTime , have been mostly good. Could u and the BFG bottle that dream and blow it into Mr. Ward's ear?
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I did my first audiobook! 👂🏻📕I've read @NaomiAKlein 's #NoIsNotEnough 3 times and will read it again it's so good.
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4 years
for those that can donate — do it. compilation of funds:
@fridahalo
kara jackson - debut album gyal
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@overdramatique watching this thread and have started a spreadsheet with links listed/any links i see will try to add diligently
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@ianaIexander mine just slightly more deranged 🤣
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2016 cinematic works of wonder: #Moonlight #TheSalesman #TheHandmaiden #Elle 👀💥
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come hang and talk story with @z_al and me this Sunday… ;)
@DEADLINE
Deadline Hollywood
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📣 See Brit Marling, co-creator/writer/director/EP/actor in ❛A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD,❜ at #DeadlineContenders : Television Saturday & Sunday April 13th and 14th LIVE IN-PERSON EVENT and Virtual Livestream DGA Theatre, Los Angeles RSVP NOW:
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location scouting // part II #theoa // 📷 audreyebbs
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In this short Life that only lasts an hour How much-how little- is within our power #dickinson #thegorgeousnothings http://t.co/KzCPjSmEkp
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If you haven’t seen Chloé Zhao’s The Rider go find a theatre near you and fall under her spell. I wept for the last half hour.
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If you haven't read @NaomiAKlein 's #NoIsNotEnough yet -- go to your local bookstore and get it today ✊🏽💥
@haymarketbooks
Haymarket Books
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"A call to start dreaming again" A powerful conversation between @NaomiAKlein and @britmarling in LA this week
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Tomorrow at 2pm EST with @crewdsonstudio // zoom link:
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Dig this piece about Lauren Berlant by @huahsu // reframing the american dream as “cruel optimism” — an asymptotic function of always approaching and never realizing
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Screening chapters 4 + 5 of @The_OA tmrw @ 7 @lafilmschool / @z_al and I talking with wonderful @yogoldsmith after / come hang
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Just posted a video
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every writing hibernation needs a set of commandments...if for no other reason than it feels naughty to break them http://t.co/Zdx21ucY5q
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my hand #explodingkittens just sayin - don't mess. got nope sauce.
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. @NaomiAKlein wrote an electrifying guide for the modern rebel #NoIsNotEnough (out June 13). Join us June 21 DTLA
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this is going to be fun… @SamFragoso always dives in deep and this time it’s LIVE!!
@TalkEasyPod
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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Next Thursday, we're going live with @britmarling ! Tickets for On Air Fest LA:
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Oliver Sacks on the dangers of digital life // search out the EM Forster story he references — wildly prophetic sci-fi from 1909
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This book by @NaomiAKlein is amazing and important to read or re-read right now
@NaomiAKlein
Naomi Klein
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I've been working with my publishers to get The Shock Doctrine available for free or almost free. Here is my UK publisher offering the ebook for 99p. I'll be donating any royalties from this to mutual aid projects.
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A well guarded secret doesn't hurt u in the moment it's uncovered. It gets u days later. When u r testing the ripeness of an avocado
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. @crewdsonstudio and i zoom about art, quarantine, and films that make us cry >>>
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I often find commonplace happiness in extraordinary moments and sublime happiness in the seeming mundane
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Marilyn Monroe, #AMurderAtTheEndOfTheWorld and whatever comes after with @seijawrites
@THR
The Hollywood Reporter
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Confessions of a Hollywood Screenwriter: Brit Marling’s Secrets of Success
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@Brollender @jasonsfolly @PatrickGibson00 @netflix @TempestBeauty I feel grateful you shared your story with us. It must have been difficult to write. It brought tears to my eyes and made me feel as though we had made something useful, which is a beautiful feeling. You, your family and Rory are in my thoughts.
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Important 2 understand why we R where we R 2 move forward ⚠️ May take u from unconscious consumer ➡️active citizen
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everyone is getting #clarice for the holiday. the surprise is what facial feature --
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truth bomb 2: you can tell a lot about yourself by how you treat people who can do nothing for you
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When I read the great ⁦ @Millicentsomer ⁩ ‘s work I often think of the adage “the pen is mightier than the sword.” #womenwritingfortheirlives
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