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Very special that a Dutch documentary is in the top10 of audience ratings at IFFR with a 4.571; totally justified by the way and we did not hesitate to include another documentary in the programme.
She calls herself a cartographer by analogy with distant examples. Rotterdam-based Carlijn Kingma has let herself be followed by Ariane Greep from the first line on the huge canvas while creating the particularly impressive artwork: 'The water work of our money'. With it, she wants to show, how unjust our financial system is.
This may all sound a bit 'difficult', but even the layman is easily drawn into the energising documentary with the work Kingma does to understand and then portray the unfathomable-sounding subject.
Kingma has been compared to Escher and Piranesi and "she draws worlds of ideas, or as she herself says, maps of the sometimes unfathomable reality we live in." (press kit)
Let us also add that Kinga and her work were chosen to represent the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale, giving her great international exposure as well.
"The camera closely shows her creative struggle while drawing and also her struggle to expose the injustice of the current monetary system; the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The drawing leads to many discussions, newspapers write full of praise and she wins several awards, including the Master Storyteller Prize, the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts and the Dutch Design Award." (press kit)
Netherlands 2023. Directed by Ariane Greep, Duration: 92'.