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Renzo Martens on White Cube: 'From now on, the Stedelijk should devote its entire acquisitions budget to art by plantation workers.'

It is undoubtedly one of the most alienating images we will see during the 33rd edition of the IDFA documentary festival. That sleek, snow-white, cube-shaped building that seems to have descended into the Congolese interior like a UFO. A disruptive eye-catcher in the only Dutch film in the international competition: White Cube.

It is the new film by Renzo Martens, who already got to open IDFA in 2008 with the uncomfortable Enjoy Poverty. In it, h...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

It is undoubtedly one of the most alienating images we will see during the 33rd edition of the IDFA documentary festival. That sleek, snow-white, cube-shaped building that seems to have descended into the Congolese interior like a UFO. A disruptive eye-catcher in the only Dutch film in the international competition: White Cube.

It is the new film by Renzo Martens, who already got to open IDFA in 2008 with the uncomfortable Enjoy Poverty. In it, h...

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