To Stay Alive: A Method (2016)

Directed by

Arno Hagers, Reinier van Brummelen, Erik Lieshout

Genre

documentary film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about struggling artists and poets, based on Michel Houellebecq's essay. It features Iggy Pop reading from the essay and interviews with marginal artists. The film examines mental health issues and what it means to be a poet.

contemplativeinsightfulstarkunflinchingmelancholiccerebralrawintimate

What happens

To Stay Alive: A Method is a 2016 Dutch documentary film directed by Erik Lieshout, Arno Hagers and Reinier van Brummelen. It is based on Michel Houellebecq's 1991 essay "To Stay Alive", about struggling artists, the role of the poet, and mental health problems. It features marginal artists as well as Houellebecq and the rock singer Iggy Pop, who reads from the original essay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Herberg van het geheugen (2016)
• The Silence of Mark Rothko (2016)
• We Moszkowicz (2016)
• All You Need Is Me (2016)
• The Passing Years (2016)
• De Waarneming (2016)
• Micha Wertheim: Voor Zichzelf (2016)
• Ageless Friends (2016)