Enjoy Poverty [Episode III: Enjoy Poverty]

Release Year
2009
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
Renzo Martens
Enjoy Poverty

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?

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