About (Me)ese;

Marisa Adelina DeMarini (b. 1990, Pekin, Illinois, raised in Tremont, Illinois) is a writer, director, editor, and photographer based in Los Angeles, California.

Frequently blending family history, hybrid technologies, time, and mounting environmental concerns, Marisa’s projects examine humanism through a futurist, near-documentary lens.

Marisa has a wealth of experience spanning many forms of content production, and currently specializes in the development and creative use of immersive technology and time manipulation.

Previously Creative Technologist for award-winning experience studio, Here Be Dragons (f.k.a. Vrse.works), she has worked on over 100+ immersive projects on and off set. From 2018-2022 she was Creative Director at Strivr, a groundbreaking immersive educational studio and platform.

A former member of the now-inactive editing collective racertrash, which sustained a strong following streaming remixed exquisite corpse-style feature films during the pandemic, her work has screened during Midnight Madness at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival as well as the 2021 Cucalorus Film Festival.

Marisa is a member of dream video division (dvd), a new experimental mixed media collective, the work of which recently screened at the 2022 Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans.

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tell me your favorite movie and why it’s titanic (1997)