Erik van Lieshout wonders how you can be free to be politically critical and uncompromising as an artist, in a Western arts tradition, if you receive a major cash prize from a multinational. In his case by winning the Heineken Prize for Art. Do you accept the prize? And, if so, what do you do with the money? Indirectly he reflects on the historical position of the white male in both the arts and the capitalist system.
Also in this combined programme
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Memorial for the Lost Pages
Brief, acute observation by photographer and filmmaker Madiha Aijaz on the changing times in Pakistani society. -
Apiyemiyekî?
An archive of drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon, document and narrate their encounter with ‘civilised man’ -
Becoming Alluvium
Past and present collide in a multilayered and emotionally charged contemplation on the beauty and suffering of the Mekong river.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 35'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
