Released
Enjoy Poverty
June 4 2009 (over 15 years ago)Rating
59
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Who owns poverty?
- Director: Renzo Martens
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 1 h 30 m
- Countries: Netherlands, Belgium
An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa's most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens single-handedly undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps the poor become aware of what is their primary capital resource: Poverty. After three years of traveling through the Democratic Republic of the Congo he asks the question: "Who owns poverty?
