What is the role of the artist in times of economic crisis and shrinking subsidies? Erik van Lieshout examines this in the direct surroundings of his studio: the lower-class urban area Rotterdam-Zuid. In apparently spontaneous monologues, he expresses his horror at the 'man in the street' and wonders: Do I have a social task? Still, he has intimate conversations with these ordinary people in their living rooms and buys the entire collection of deceased collector Janus to turn it into an installation.
won prizes
NL - Rotterdam International Film Festival IFFR Tiger Award