Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008)
- Directed by
- Renzo Martens
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Netherlands
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Dutch artist travels through the Congo and points out how the region's poverty is treated as a resource by journalists and aid organizations. He proposes that local people should market their own hardship for profit.
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What happens
Renzo Martens (born 1973 in Terneuzen) is a Dutch artist who currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Kinshasa. Martens became known for his controversial work, including Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008), a documentary that suggests that the Congo markets its poverty as a natural resource. In 2010 Renzo Martens initiated the art institute Human Activities that postulates a gentrification program on a palm oil plantation in the Congolese rainforest. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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