/y2hy674QxPVgVbjfMPiTobYBNzM.jpg

Enjoy Poverty

  • June 2009
  • 1hr

    30mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Renzo Martens,

    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?