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

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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