Enjoy Poverty
Enjoy Poverty
5.9 Episode III: Enjoy Poverty
2009, 1 h 30 m
Documentary
Who owns 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?